[Python-Dev] PEP 550 v3 naming
Antoine Pitrou
solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Aug 23 12:56:41 EDT 2017
On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 12:19:40 -0400
Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> PEP 550 calls generators and asynchronous tasks as "logical threads",
> and "logical context" stems directly from that notion.
I wouldn't refer to a generator as a "thread" personally. A thread
essentially executes without intervention from outside code, which is
not the case for a generator (where resumption is controlled by
explicit next() calls or iteration by the consumer).
That is also why I proposed the more general "task" (and "task
context"). Of course, capitalized "Task" is given a specific
meaning by asyncio...
Regards
Antoine.
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