[Python-ideas] How the heck does async/await work in Python 3.5

[Terry Reedy]

On 2/24/2016 4:59 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
> On 24 February 2016 at 02:37, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>>
>> In this essay, Brett says that asyncio added an event loop to Python. It
>> did, but it was the second.  The tk event loop was added about 20 years ago
>> with tkinter.
>
> One of the things I would love to see (but don't have the time to work
> on) is a GUI event loop based around async/await. It would be a very
> useful example to make it clear to people that async/await isn't just
> about network protocols.

Aiming at this was part of the point of my closing comment about 
adapting generators to the tk mainloop callback interface.  The next 
step would be to do the same for awaitables.  However, I need more study 
of the details of asyncio and the async/await protocol.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy