On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 2:28 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: > "Frank Millman" <fr...@chagford.com>: > >> "Marko Rauhamaa" wrote in message news:87d1hd4d5k....@elektro.pacujo.net... >>> I don't think bulk iteration in asynchronous programming is ever that >>> great of an idea. You want to be prepared for more than one possible >>> stimulus in any given state. IOW, a state machine matrix might be >>> sparse but it is never diagonal. >> >> [...] >> >> I use 'bulk iteration' a lot in my app. It is a client/server >> multi-user business/accounting app. >> >> If a user wants to view the contents of a large table, or I want to >> print statements for a lot of customers, I can request the data and >> process it as it arrives, without blocking the other users. > > Each "await" in a program is a (quasi-)blocking state. In each state, > the program needs to be ready to process different input events.
Well, that's why you can have multiple different coroutines awaiting at any given time. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
