[stdlib-sig] futures - a new package for asynchronous execution

[Antoine Pitrou]

> I'm +1 adding something which provides this functionality to the
> standard library, in fact it's been on my todo list since adding
> multiprocessing. I actually suggested something like this in private
> discussions around possible additions to jython for additional
> concurrency constructs.
> 
> That being said, I'll try to carve time off soon to dig into the pep
> and the implementation.

Have you thought at looking at Twisted and Deferred objects?
What's the point of starting from scratch when an existing project has a
well-known and well-established API?