[Python-ideas] PEP 3156/Tulip: Extensible EventLoop interface

[Amaury Forgeot d'Arc]

2013/2/5 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>

> > - GUI input events - I don't know about Unix, but Windows GUI events
> > are a separate notification stream from network or pipe data, and it's
> > very plausible that someone would want to integrate GUI events into an
> > async app. Twisted, for instance, has GUI event loop integration
> > facilities, I believe.
>
> That's way too large a topic to try to anticipate without thorough
> research. And it's not very likely that you can do this in a portable
> way either -- the best you can probably hope for is have a PEP
> 3156-compliant event loop that lets you use portable async networking
> APIs (transports and protocols) while also letting you write
> platform-*specific* GUI code. The best route here will probably be the
> PEP 3156 bridge that Twisted is going to develop once the PEP and
> Twisted's Python 3 port stabilize. (Unfortunately, wxPython is not
> ported to Python 3.)


That's not exactly true: http://wiki.wxpython.org/ProjectPhoenix#Links
It's still a work in progress, but the basic interface is unlikely to
change.

-- 
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
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