[Python-ideas] Async API

[Yury Selivanov]

On 2012-10-24, at 9:34 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
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> (Note that in the face of preemption, I don't think it's possible
> to solve this problem completely without language support, because
> there will always be a small window of opportunity between
> entering the finally clause and getting into the with-statement
> or whatever that you're using to block asynchronous signals.)

Agree.

In my experience, though, broken finally blocks due to interruption
by a signal is a very rare thing (again, that maybe different for
someone else.)

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Yury