[Python-ideas] async: feedback on EventLoop API

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:47:22 -0800
Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> 
> (BTW, can someone *please* come up with a better name for DelayedCall?
> It's tedious and doesn't abbreviate well. But I don't want to name the
> class 'Callback' since I already use 'callback' for function objects
> that are used as callbacks.)

Does it need to be abbreviated? I don't think users have to spell
"DelayedCall" at all (they just call call_later()).
That said, some proposals:
- Timer (might be mixed up with threading.Timer)
- Deadline
- RDV (French abbrev. for rendez-vous)

Regards

Antoine.