[Python-ideas] async/await in Python

[Guido van Rossum]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 2:34 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> On 17.04.2015 20:58, Yury Selivanov wrote:
> > Hello python-ideas,
> >
> > Here's my proposal to add async/await in Python.
> >
> > I believe that PEPs 380 and 3156 were a major breakthrough for Python 3,
> > and I hope that this PEP can be another big step.  Who knows, maybe it
> > will be one of the reasons to drive people's interest towards Python 3.
>
> Thanks for proposing this syntax. With async/await added to Python I think
> I
> would actually start writing native async code instead of relying on
> gevent to do all the heavy lifting for me ;-)
>

A most ringing endorsement. (I'm in favor of Yuri's PEP too, but I don't
want to push too hard for it as I haven't had the time to consider all the
consequences.

PS. It's now live as PEP 492: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0492/

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