[Python-ideas] async objects

[Paul Moore]

On 3 October 2016 at 15:52, Giampaolo Rodola' <g.rodola at gmail.com> wrote:
> Independently from what the proposed solution is, I think you raised a very
> valid concern: the DRY principle.
> Right now the stdlib has tons of client network libraries which do not
> support the new async model.
> As such, library vendors will have to rewrite them by using the new syntax
> and provide an "aftplib", "ahttplib" etc. and release them as third-party
> libs hosted on PYPI. This trend is already happening as we speak:
> https://github.com/python/asyncio/wiki/ThirdParty#clients
> It would be awesome if somehow the Python stdlib itself would provide some
> mechanism to make the existent "batteries" able to run asynchronously so
> that, say, ftplib or httplib can be used with asyncio as the base IO loop
> and at the same time maintain the same existent API.
> Gevent tried to do the same thing with
> http://www.gevent.org/gevent.monkey.html
> As for *how* to do that, I'm sorry to say that I really have no idea. It's a
> complicated issue, but I think it's good that this has been raised.

There's https://sans-io.readthedocs.io/ which proposes an approach to
solving this issue.

Paul