[Python-ideas] async/await in Python

[Chris Angelico]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 8:24 AM, David Wilson <dw+python-ideas at hmmz.org> wrote:
>     Is there a need or desire for "async lambda ...:"? Notably, it's
> possible though fairly useless to define a lambda generator:
> "lambda x: (yield from x)" works today.

Possible, indeed, but I suspect it's pretty rare. That's why bugs like
this can lurk around - virtually nobody uses lambda to write
generators:

http://bugs.python.org/issue23192

And it wasn't production code that led me to run into that issue, it
was solely from playing with the syntax.

ChrisA