[Python-Dev] please back out changeset f903cf864191 before alpha-2 (original) (raw)

Eli Bendersky eliben at gmail.com
Mon Aug 26 20:38:33 CEST 2013

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

On 26 August 2013 17:40, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, exactly :-) "Incremental", though, seems to support the conjecture that it's the input. Which is true, but, since XMLParser is also "incremental" in this sense, slightly confusing. As a data point, until you explained the difference between the two classes earlier in this thread, I too had been completely confused as both the existing and the new classes are "incremental" (on the input side - that's what I interpret "incremental" as meaning). It never even occurred to me that the difference was in the output side. Maybe "NonBlocking" would imply that to me. Or maybe "Generator". But regardless, I think the changes you've made sound good, and I'm certainly less concerned with the new version(as someone who will likely never use the new API, and therefore doesn't really have a vote).

Thanks for the data point; it is useful.

How about StreamParser?

The problem with StreamParser is similar to IncrementalParser. "Stream" carries the impression that it refers to the input. But the input of ET parsers is always streaming, in a way (the feed/close interface). I want a name that conveys that the output is also nonblocking/streaming/yielding/generating/etc. Therefore Nonblocking (I'll let better English experts to decide whether B should be capitalized) sounds better to me, because it helps convey that both sides of the parser are asynchronous.

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