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Coroutines with async and await syntax (Python 3.5)

With Python 3.5 released, the thing that drew my attention is the support for asynchronous programming through PEP 0492 -- Coroutines with async and await syntax, which added awaitable objects, coroutine functions, asynchronous iteration, and asynchronous context managers. I found the mailing list discussions (look both above and below) particularly helpful in understanding what exactly is going on.

By Ehud Lamm at 2015-09-17 16:08 | Python | other blogs | 25035 reads

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Limited coroutines

These seem from a quick glance to be a limited class of coroutines compared with, say, Felix fibres. Both have yielding generators but these are strictly equivalent to fibres with a single channel of communication between a pair of routines.

It's a pity the model eschewed in Stackless Python wasn't followed IMHO.

By skaller at Thu, 2015-09-24 07:30 | login or register to post comments