Not relavent to your questions, but there's a mailing list for discussing the specifics of PEP 3156, which is worth subscribing to if you want to provide specific feedback on the API.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/python-tulip On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:00 AM, Tim Allen <screwt...@froup.com> wrote: > In Guido's keynote at PyCon 2013, apparently he talked about adding an > async I/O module to Python 3.4. It looks like his slides can be viewed > here: > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/xknbe58zcvjhzhv/PyCon2013.pptx > > ...while this is the PEP he's talking about: > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3156/ > > At first glance, the proposed reactor API looks very much like Twisted's > (or, to be fair, GTK's, or possibly any number of other async event loop > I'm less familiar with) but rather than Deferreds and callbacks, the API > will be based around Futures (similar, but not identical, to Python > 3.2's concurrent.futures.Future class), and an inlineCallbacks-style > decorator for generators. > > I know Deferreds are awesome, and I don't know much about Futures (and > I know Twisted core developers have given negative reviews of > other Deferred/Promise/Future implementations in, say, JavaScript > libraries before), and inlineCallbacks seems to have a negative > reputation among experienced Twisted users. Is there anybody on this > list who knows more about this new PEP (maybe somebody who's at PyCon > and saw the talk in person) who can give us an informed comparison with > the current state of Twisted? > > > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-Python mailing list > Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com > http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python >
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