[Python-ideas] PEP 530: Asynchronous Comprehensions

[Koos Zevenhoven]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 September 2016 at 09:31, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>> With the proposed asynchronous comprehensions syntax, the above code
>> becomes as short as::
>>
>>     result = [i async for i in aiter() if i % 2]
>
> After using it a few times in examples, while I'm prepared to accept
> the agrammatical nature of "async for" in the statement form (where
> the adjective-noun phrase can be read as a kind of compound noun
> introducing the whole statement), I think for the comprehension form,
> we should aim to put the words in the right grammatical order if we
> can:
>
>     result = [i for i in async aiter() if i % 2]
>

I agree this would be better, but the difference compared to PEP-492
async for loops (and even async with statements) would be awful :S.

-- Koos


> I think the readability gain from that approach becomes even clearer
> with nested loops:
>
>     result = [x for aiterable in async outer() for x in async aiterable]
>
> vs the current:
>
>     result = [x async for aiterable in outer() async for x in async aiterable]
>
> In the first form, "async" is clearly a pre-qualifier on "outer()" and
> "aiterable", indicating they need to be asynchronous iterators rather
> than synchronous ones.
>
> By contrast, in the current form, the first "async" reads like a
> post-qualifer on "x" (it isn't, it modifies how outer() is handled in
> the outer loop), while the second looks like a post-qualifier on
> "outer()" (it isn't, it modified how aiterable is handled in the inner
> loop)
>
> If that means having to postpone full async comprehensions until
> "async" becomes a proper keyword in 3.7 and only adding "await in
> comprehensions and generator expressions" support to 3.6, that seems
> reasonable to me
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
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