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

[Jesse Noller]

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Brian Quinlan <brian at sweetapp.com> wrote:

> It is definitely true that you can roll your own implementation using
> threads but the purpose of the futures library is to make that unnecessary.

I'd like to stress this; futures/pools/etc are common enough patterns
(and I get requests to add more to multiprocessing) that it makes
sense as an add-on to the stdlib. This is sugar; not magic.

jesse