On Monday, September 11, 2017 at 1:28:24 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Gregory Ewing: > > > 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. > > Asyncio makes it possible to write a single-threaded program in > multithreading style. > > The multithreading style means entwining the state of a finite state > machine in the form of the source code. While a callback-based program > will use one or more variables (object attributes) to store the state -- > or leave it implicit -- an asyncio program marks each state with the > "await" keyword. > > The multithreading style is convenient in cases where each state is > blocked on a single possible event. Trouble is, most state machines I > run into (and that's my bread and butter), each state is blocked on > several or even numerous alternative events.
Do you have some reading material suggestions for grokking the a-world? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
