[Python-Dev] [PEP 3148] futures - execute computations asynchronously

[Jesse Noller]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Daniel Stutzbach
<daniel at stutzbachenterprises.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Brian Quinlan <brian at sweetapp.com> wrote:
>>
>> import futures
>
> +1 on the idea, -1 on the name.  It's too similar to "from __future__ import
> ...".

Futures is a common term for this, and implemented named this in other
languages. I don't think we should be adopting things that are common,
and found elsewhere and then renaming them.