On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Chris Angelico wrote: >> >> Async functions in >> JS are an alternative to callback hell; most people consider async >> functions in Python to be an alternative to synchronous functions. > > > What do you base that on? Seems to me async is an alternative > to callback-based frameworks such as Twisted. > > Calling async functions an alternative to sync functions > doesn't make sense, because if sync functions will do what > you want, there's no need to use async ones.
Do a quick poll here on the list. Who sees async functions as an alternative to Twisted? Who here has even *used* Twisted? (How many even know what it is?) Personally, I think of them as an alternative to threading. Basically they're a way to use the code style of threaded I/O (functions that block when they need to read from a socket etc) with the light-weight efficiency of doing everything in one thread. I have never used Twisted. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
