[Python-Dev] [PEP 3148] futures - execute computations asynchronously (original) (raw)

Jesse Noller jnoller at gmail.com
Fri Mar 5 17:35:54 CET 2010

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Daniel Stutzbach <daniel at stutzbachenterprises.com> wrote:

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Brian Quinlan <brian at sweetapp.com> wrote:

import futures +1 on the idea, -1 on the name.  It's too similar to "from future import ...".

Futures is a common term for this, and implemented named this in other languages. I don't think we should be adopting things that are common, and found elsewhere and then renaming them.

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