Asyncio -- delayed calculation

[Steve D'Aprano]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 05:41 am, Ian Kelly wrote:

> You mean how do you create something that can be awaited that doesn't
> await something else in turn? With a Future.
> 
> import asyncio
> 
> class Awaitable(asyncio.Future):
>   def wake_up_later(self):
>     asyncio.get_event_loop().call_later(3, self.set_result, 42)

Not to be confused with concurrent.Futures.

https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/concurrent.futures.html

https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/asyncio-task.html#asyncio.Future




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Steve
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