On 08/22/2013 05:29 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > So my son is now spending his days on c# and .net. He's enthusiastic about > async and await, and said to me last evening, "I don't think python has > anything > like that". I'm not terribly knowledgeable myself regarding async > programming > (since I never need to use it). I did look at this: > > http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2013/Aug-15.html
Any time you use a GUI library, you can often use its own async primitives (in fact you probably need to). For example glib from Gtk+ provides io wait primitives. Or if you want a completely asynchronous programming experience from top to bottom, you can use python twisted. There are also other libraries to do this. Having first-class language support is certainly nice, and it would be nice if Python had this. GvR himself agrees. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOQLVm0-8Yg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list