[Python-ideas] async/await in Python (C API ?)

[Andrew Svetlov]

Marc-Andre Lemburg, do you have ideas for how C API should look like?
Personally I have no idea for now (but I have never thought about too
much).

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 4:18 PM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> Hi Yury,
>
> do you have any plans of also exposing an easy to use C API
> for async and await ?
>
> I think this would be useful to e.g. implement asynchronous
> database access. Most of those adapters are written in C and
> need so a C API would help a lot with this.
>
> A problem I ran to with e.g. gevent is that it's not easy
> to use the available async APIs from C, even less so for
> systems like the ODBC API which require the use of polling
> for async processing and which don't give you access to e.g.
> tap into long running parts of the communication (sockets, etc.)
> which gevent does at the Python level.
>
> Thanks,
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Thanks,
Andrew Svetlov