[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] r88395 - python/branches/py3k/Lib/asyncore.py

[exarkun at twistedmatrix.com]

On 12:34 am, stutzbach at google.com wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 4:22 PM, <exarkun at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
>>Do people want to seriously consider deprecating asyncore and adding a
>>replacement for it to the stdlib?
>
>>(Hey, PyCon is coming up.  How convenient. :)
>
>The desire is there, but it's a hard problem.  There was a similar
>discussion before PyCon 2009, but not much came of it:
>
>http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-March/086678.html

I started working on a PEP last year, but I didn't get very far partly 
because I doubted the desire.

What part do you think is a hard problem?  Convincing people to switch 
to a new API?  *Defining* the new API doesn't seem very hard to me.

Jean-Paul