[Python-3000] Futures in Python 3000

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Apr 22 06:11:01 CEST 2006


Jim Jewett wrote:
> There, a Future is a proxy object, whose actual characteristics will
> (or may) be filled in later.  If you need it, you wait for it, but if
> you don't need it yet, it can be created in the background.
> 
> How to make this cleaner than the existing concrete implementations
> (such as a twisted Deferred, or spawning a thread which puts a return
> value in a known location) -- that is the part which hasn't been
> worked out.

Rampant API theft from weakref.proxy?

Cheers,
Nick.

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