Excerpts from Jamu Kakar's message of Thu Jul 30 15:03:16 -0400 2009: > 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.
Right. Everything you could do synchronously, you can do asynchronously (and a bit more too). It just /looks/ really weird. > 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. :) That would be very helpful! Cheers, Edward _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
