[Python-Dev] PEP 3148 ready for pronouncement (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Wed May 26 10:44:02 CEST 2010

Nick Coghlan writes:

On 26/05/10 13:51, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

People have been asking "what's special about this module, to violate the BCP principle?" There's nothing special about the fact that several people would use a "robust and debugged" futures module if it were in the stdlib. That's true of every module that is worth a PEP.

The trick with futures and executor pools is that they're a better way of programming with threads in many cases.

and

However, given the choices of [...]. I'll choose the first option every time, and my programs will be the worse for it.

Again, nothing all that special about those; lots of proposed changes satisfy similar conditions. I don't think anyone denies the truth or applicability of those arguments. But are they enough?

Really, what you're arguing is "now is better than never." Indeed, that is so. But you shouldn't forget that is immediately followed by "although never is often better than right now."

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