event loops and Python?

[Kragen Sitaker]

In article <slrn8cjb3e.ja5.kc5tja at garnet.armored.net>,
Samuel A. Falvo II <kc5tja at garnet.armored.net> wrote:
>The original author posted:
>>to be tty-based.  I want it to do background processing when it's not
>>responding to me.  And I don't like threads.
>
>Whether you like it or not, threads of some nature are going to enter the
>picture at some point, whether they're POSIX threads, state-machine
>transitions, an orchestrated set of call-back functions, or otherwise.

I don't like preemptive threads because they make my life complicated.
They're justified in some cases, but probably not in this case.

Cooperative threads that happen on input/output functions would
probably be OK, but I'd like to avoid even those.

Half of this is probably my own irrational desire to play with things a
certain way.
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