[Python-ideas] Are there asynchronous generators?

[Paul Moore]

On 2 July 2015 at 17:21, Ron Adam <ron3200 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/02/2015 05:57 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
>>
>> So even though people can
>> understand event-driven problems, they can't, without experience, see
>> how async/await*addresses*  that problem.
>
>
> Yes, I think there are some parts to it that are difficult to understand
> still.  That could be a documentation thing.
>
> Consider a routine roughly organised like this:
>
>       event_loop:
>             item_loop1:
>                    action1 <-- wait for event1
>             item_loop2:
>                    action2 <-- wait for event2
>             other_things_loop:
>                    ...
>                    sleep    # continue event_loop
>
>
> It's not clear to me how to write that with asyncio yet.  But I don't think
> I'm alone.

Precisely. Thanks for explaining it better than I did.
Paul