[Python-Dev] PEP 492: async/await in Python; v3 (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Apr 29 11:12:49 CEST 2015

Guido van Rossum wrote:

There's a cost to future imports too. The current proposal is a pretty clever hack -- and we've done similar hacks in the past

There's a benefit to having a future import beyond avoiding hackery: by turning on the future you can find out what will break when they become real keywords.

But I suppose that could be achieved by having both the hack and the future import available.

-- Greg

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