[Python-Dev] API design: where to add async variants of existing stdlib APIs?

[Ethan Furman]

On 03/07/2017 09:41 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:

> I don't think a common practice has bubbled up yet for when there's both synchronous and asynchronous versions of an API
> (closest I have seen is appending an "a" to the async version but that just looks like a spelling mistake to me most of
> the time). This is why the question of whether separate modules are a better idea is coming up.

I'm undoubtedly going to show my ignorance with this question, but is it feasible to have both sync and async support in 
the same object?

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~Ethan~