[Python-ideas] async/await in Python

[Yury Selivanov]

Hi Luciano,

Thank you for so positive feedback! Let's hope the PEP will be
accepted in time!

Yury

On 2015-04-20 4:17 AM, Luciano Ramalho wrote:
> Yuri, thank you for writing PEP 492!
>
> Victor Stinner reviewed the asyncio chapter in my book, Fluent Python
> [1], and he saw how much I complained about the overloading of `def`
> to define objects as different as functions, generators and
> coroutines, and about `yield from` which doesn't say anything to me or
> to many others to whom I've talked.
>
> With `async def` and `await` you solve both these problems! Also,
> `async with` and `async for` are brilliant. For the first time ever
> coroutines will be real first class citizens in Python!
>
> [1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032519.do
>
> Alas, the book [1] is entering final production so it won't cover
> Python 3.5, but I do hope to see what you propose in Python 3.5, and
> if there is a second edition, it will be a pleasure to explain `async`
> and `await`!
>
> I did have time to add a paragraph about PEP 492 in a Further reading
> section, citing your name as the author.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Luciano
>
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