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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Nov 27 17:05:07 EST 2017


On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 1:58 PM, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

Guido van Rossum wrote:

The source for sleep() isn't very helpful -- e.g. @coroutine is mostly a backwards compatibility thing.

So how are you supposed to write that without using @coroutine?

A simplified version using async def/await:

async def sleep(delay): f = Future() get_event_loop().call_later(delay, f.set_result) await f

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