[Python-Dev] PEP 492: async/await in Python; version 4 (original) (raw)

Nathaniel Smith njs at pobox.com
Wed May 6 00:01:05 CEST 2015

On May 5, 2015 2:14 PM, "Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote:

In the PEP 492 world, these concepts map as follows: - Future translates to "something with an await method" (and asyncio Futures are trivially made compliant by defining Future.await as an alias for Future.iter); - "asyncio coroutine" maps to "PEP 492 coroutine object" (either defined with async def or a generator decorated with @types.coroutine -- note that @asyncio.coroutine incorporates the latter); - "either of the above" maps to "awaitable".

Err, aren't the first and third definitions above identical?

Surely we want to say: an async def function is a convenient shorthand for creating a custom awaitable (exactly like how generators are a convenient shorthand for creating custom iterators), and a Future is-an awaitable that also adds some extra methods.

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