Hi Edward, On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Edward Z. Yang<ezy...@mit.edu> wrote: > I have been prodded by the members of #twisted into rewriting the > Deferred documentation. You can check out the plan at this > ticket: > > http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/3943 > > Comments would be appreciated.
Your outline looks nice. Something that *really* helped me a lot with Deferreds was seeing how they are modelled after standard Python flow control behaviour. I guess that's what the first section your proposing is about. Jono Lange gave a presentation recently (can't remember what it was called... maybe something about being an evil hacker or about how your code sucks and he hates you) where he presented step-by-step slides that shows some normal Python code and then the asynchronous Deferred-using equivalent. Even though I understood the principles reasonably well before attending his talk, the way he presented them in his slides was very effective and helped me clarify that understanding. If he's willing, which I suspect he will be, I recommend you look at the slides and steal his good ideas. :) Thanks, J. _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
