[Python-ideas] async/await in Python (C API ?)

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 20.04.2015 15:34, Andrew Svetlov wrote:
> Marc-Andre Lemburg, do you have ideas for how C API should look like?
> Personally I have no idea for now (but I have never thought about too
> much).

See my reply to Yury. I don't have any preference for a particular
approach. As long as we can have an API that's easy to use in
80% of the use cases, I'd be happy :-) (and then hopefully cover
the remaining 20% with something more complex but still possible).

> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 4:18 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
>> Hi Yury,
>>
>> do you have any plans of also exposing an easy to use C API
>> for async and await ?
>>
>> I think this would be useful to e.g. implement asynchronous
>> database access. Most of those adapters are written in C and
>> need so a C API would help a lot with this.
>>
>> A problem I ran to with e.g. gevent is that it's not easy
>> to use the available async APIs from C, even less so for
>> systems like the ODBC API which require the use of polling
>> for async processing and which don't give you access to e.g.
>> tap into long running parts of the communication (sockets, etc.)
>> which gevent does at the Python level.

Thanks,
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