[Python-Dev] Using async/await in place of yield expression (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Nov 27 12:40:06 EST 2017

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 1:12 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

On Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:41:55 -0800 Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote: > > Since most libraries assume that they control both await and the > coroutine runner, they don't tend to give great error messages here > (though trio does [2] ;-)). I think this is also why the asyncio docs > don't talk about this. I guess in asyncio's case it is technically a > semi-public API because you need to know how it works if you're the > author of a library like tornado or twisted that wants to integrate > with asyncio. But most people aren't the authors of tornado or > twisted, and the ones who are already know how this works, so the lack > of docs isn't a huge deal in practice...

This does seem to mean that it can be difficult to provide a await method that works with different coroutine runners, though. For example, Tornado Futures implement await for compatibility with the asyncio event loop. But what if Tornado wants to make its Future class compatible with an event loop that requires a different await convention?

Someone would have to write a PEP proposing a standard interoperability API for event loops.

There is already such a PEP (PEP 3156, which standardized the asyncio event loop, including the interop API) but curio and trio intentionally set out to invent their own conventions. At least asyncio has an API that allows overriding the factory for Futures, so if someone comes up with a Future that is interoperable between asyncio and curio, for example, it might be possible. But likely curio would have to be modified somewhat too.

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