[Async-sig] SansIO (Was: PEP: asynchronous generators)

Cory Benfield cory at lukasa.co.uk
Tue Aug 9 13:49:34 EDT 2016


> On 9 Aug 2016, at 18:35, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>  
>> Necessarily, if you can test it with tests that don’t involve writing mocks for anything in the socket, select, selectors, or asyncio modules, you’re probably in a pretty good place to be arguing that you’re I/O free. If your tests only use the public interfaces, then you’re totally set.
> 
> Which "public interfaces" are you referring to? For me, any I/O-free library shouldn't be driving the I/O, just a producer/consumer of data. That means even if something follows e.g. the public interface of a socket that it wouldn't qualify as that suggests the library gets to make the call on when the I/O occurs and that you expose a socket for it to use.

Sorry, I just meant the public API of the no-I/O library.

Cory
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