[Async-sig] PEP: asynchronous generators
Yury Selivanov
yselivanov at gmail.com
Tue Aug 2 10:15:47 EDT 2016
> To keep it simple, try thinking like this (and yes, Yury, apologies - this is now a side discussion, and not about this pep): everything in CPython is async, and if you don't want async, you don't need to know about, you run a single async task and don't need to know more...
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> Can we get there?
> That would be cool...
So, essentially, something similar to Golang? I don’t know if that’s possible. It would require a complete CPython IO layer rewrite, integrating an event loop directly into the core, etc. The closest thing to that is gevent — no async/await and all IO is non-blocking, but it has its own warts.
Yury
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