[Python-ideas] async/await in Python

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Apr 19 08:21:59 CEST 2015


Andrew Barnert wrote:
> The only problem is that, when it's important to specify that you mean the
> new kind of coroutines explicitly, there's no obvious way to do so--if I say
> "async coroutines" someone may reasonably think I'm referring to "coroutines
> as user in asyncio".

PEP 3152 solves this problem by calling them "cofunctions",
which doesn't collide with any existing terminology that
I'm aware of.

-- 
Greg


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