On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote: > > I haven't gotten my head around Python asyncio and have been wanting > to read this: > > http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2016/10/30/i-dont-understand-asyncio/
It's talking a lot about how we got here, which isn't all necessary if you just want to give asyncio a whirl. The conclusion at the end says that you should just use 'async def' and not bother with all the older forms, which I agree with (subject to the usual caveat that this implies no support for older Pythons). There's one thing that I really struggle with, though, and that's that there's no easy and obvious way to demonstrate the lowest level of operation. If "await x()" is like "yield from x()", how do you do the innermost "yield" that actually does something? I have the same confusion with Node.js, too. It's as if async primitives can't be implemented in application code at all, they just have to be given to you. Certainly it's not something made clear anywhere in the docs that I've found. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
