[Python-ideas] Cofunctions - Back to Basics

[Nick Coghlan]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> I'm not hostile to the idea. But the PEP needs to reference concrete
> examples that people can run to see that there is a problem to be solved.
> Otherwise, it just seems that you're proposing adding more complication to
> the Python, at least one new keyword and one more builtin, for what gain?

Indeed, this is why I think the PEP needs to spend more time talking
about Twisted and gevent. They both attack the problem of coroutines
in Python, one by writing within the limitations of what already
exists (which is why it's really a programming paradigm unto itself),
the other by lifting some core components out of Stackless (i.e. the
greenlets module) in order to get true coroutines.

The PEP is basically about making the Twisted-style approach less problematic.

Cheers,
Nick.

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