[Python-Dev] PEP 492 quibble and request

[Paul Moore]

On 30 April 2015 at 09:58, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Ethan Furman wrote:
>>
>> Having gone through the PEP again, I am still no closer to understanding
>> what happens here:
>>
>>   data = await reader.read(8192)
>>
>> What does the flow of control look like at the interpreter level?
>
>
> Are you sure you *really* want to know? For the sake
> of sanity, I recommend ignoring the actual control
> flow and pretending that it's just like
>
>    data = reader.read(8192)
>
> with the reader.read() method somehow able to be
> magically suspended.

Well, if I don't know, I get confused as to where I invoke the event
loop, how my non-async code runs alongside this etc.
Paul