[Python-ideas] The async API of the future: yield-from

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Oct 16 18:39:59 CEST 2012


On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:31:55 +0000
Steve Dower <Steve.Dower at microsoft.com> wrote:
> > I'm sure doing concurrent I/O will require an event loop, unless you use threads under the hood...
> 
> Polling I/O will require some sort of loop, yes, but I/O that triggers a callback at the OS level (such as ReadFileEx and WriteFileEx on Windows) doesn't need it.

Well, how do you plan for that callback to execute Python code?

Regards

Antoine.





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