[Python-ideas] PEP 492 terminology - (native) coroutine objects

[Ron Adam]

On 04/30/2015 04:37 PM, Oscar Benjamin wrote:
> With PEP 492 it seems that I would get something like:
>
>>>> >>>async def af(): pass
>>>> >>>ag = af()
>>>> >>>ag
> <coroutine_object object af at 0x7fb81dadc828>


 > It seems harder to think of a good name for ag though.

A waiter?
or awaiter?

As in a-wait-ing an awaiter.

Maybe there's a restaurant/food way of describing how it works. :-)


I'm not sure I have the use correct.  But I think we need to use "await 
af()" when calling an async function.

Cheers,
    Ron