[Python-ideas] Async API

[Yury Selivanov]

On 2012-10-25, at 11:58 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> Yuri, please give up this particular issue (trying to patch CPython to
> record whether a generator is in a finally clause). I have failed to
> explain my reasons why I think it is a bad idea, but you haven't
> convinced me it's a good idea, and we have at least two decent
> work-arounds. So let me just use the release cycle as an argument:
> your patch is a new feature, 3.3 just came out, so it cannot be
> introduced until 3.4. I don't want to wait for that.

OK, NP.

One question: what do we actually want to get?  What're the goals?

- A specification (PEP?) of how to make stdlib more async-friendly?

- To develop a separate library that may be included in the stdlib
one day?

- And what's your opinion on writing a PEP about making it possible 
to pass a custom socket-factory to stdlib objects?

I'm (and I think it's not just me) a bit lost here, after reading 100s 
of emails on python-ideas.  And I just want to know where to channel my 
energy and expertise ;)

-
Yury