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

[Tres Seaver]

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Jesse Noller wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
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>> 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.

I'm just expressiong a preference for scoping the name, and don't want
to preempt the process.  If your proposed work on factoring common stuff
out of multiprocessing would sit in the same conceptual space, then
sharing the package name seems like a good plan to me.


Tres.
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