c# async, await

[Michael Torrie]

On 08/22/2013 05:29 AM, Neal Becker wrote:
> So my son is now spending his days on c# and .net.  He's enthusiastic about 
> async and await, and said to me last evening, "I don't think python has anything 
> like that".  I'm not terribly knowledgeable myself regarding async programming 
> (since I never need to use it).  I did look at this:
> 
> http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2013/Aug-15.html

Any time you use a GUI library, you can often use its own async
primitives (in fact you probably need to).  For example glib from Gtk+
provides io wait primitives.  Or if you want a completely asynchronous
programming experience from top to bottom, you can use python twisted.
There are also other libraries to do this.

Having first-class language support is certainly nice, and it would be
nice if Python had this.  GvR himself agrees.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOQLVm0-8Yg