[Python-ideas] The async API of the future

[Greg Ewing]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> when you are told you have to fetch *some* bytes" but you may not get
> all 32 bytes ... so you have to build a loop around this until you actually have
> gotten 32 bytes. Same if instead of 32 bytes you want the next line --

You have to build a loop for these reasons when using
synchronous calls, too. You just don't usually notice this
because the libraries take care of it for you.

-- 
Greg