The Incredible Growth of Python (stackoverflow.blog)
Gregory Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Sep 11 03:21:32 EDT 2017
Chris Angelico wrote:
> Async functions in
> JS are an alternative to callback hell; most people consider async
> functions in Python to be an alternative to synchronous functions.
What do you base that on? Seems to me async is an alternative
to callback-based frameworks such as Twisted.
Calling async functions an alternative to sync functions
doesn't make sense, because if sync functions will do what
you want, there's no need to use async ones.
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Greg
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