[Python-ideas] Tulip / PEP 3156 - subprocess events

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Jan 18 06:08:06 CET 2013


On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>
>> I just renamed it to create_connection(), like I've been promising for
>> a long time.

> That still doesn't spell out that it's about the internet
> in particular. Or is the assumption that internet connections
> are the only kind that matter these days?

Basically yes, in this context. The same assumption underlies
socket.getaddrinfo() in the stdlib. If you have a CORBA system lying
around and you want to support it, you're welcome to create the
transport connection function create_corba_connection(). :-)

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