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

[Guido van Rossum]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA1
>>
>> Jesse Noller wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> - -1 to the name from me as well:  it isn't "scoped" properly to make it
>> clear what the module is about.  If they were inside a pacakge named
>> 'concurrency' or some such (as hinted by Jesse Noller, I think), the
>> clash would go away.
>
> If people agree with this; do you feel the proposal of said namespace
> should be a separate PEP, or piggy back on this? I don't want to piggy
> back on Brian's hard work.

A simple renaming of futures to concurrency.futures seems easy enough
to swallow. (Though I haven't kept track of what other modules the PEP
proposes.)

-- 
--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)