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

Brian Quinlan brian at sweetapp.com
Fri May 28 01:37:19 CEST 2010

On 28 May 2010, at 09:18, Greg Ewing wrote:

Brian Quinlan wrote:

I think that the "Executor" suffix is a good indicator of the interface being provided. It's not usually considered necessary for the name of a type to indicate its interface. We don't have 'listsequence' and 'dictmapping' for example. I think what bothers me most about these names is their longwindedness. Two parts to a name is okay, but three or more starts to sound pedantic. And for me, "Pool" is a more important piece of information than "Executor". The fact that it manages a pool is the main reason I'd use such a module rather than just spawning a thread myself for each task.

Actually, an executor implementation that created a new thread per
task would still be useful - it would save you the hassle of
developing a mechanism to wait for the thread to finish and to collect
the results. We actually have such an implementation at Google and it
is quite popular.

Cheers, Brian

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