c# async, await

[Neal Becker]

So my son is now spending his days on c# and .net. He's enthusiastic about
async and await, and said to me last evening, "I don't think python has anything
like that". I'm not terribly knowledgeable myself regarding async programming
(since I never need to use it). I did look at this:

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2013/Aug-15.html

I wonder what response the python community might have.

 

[Neil Cerutti]

So my son is now spending his days on c# and .net. He's enthusiastic about
async and await, and said to me last evening, "I don't think python has anything
like that". I'm not terribly knowledgeable myself regarding async programming
(since I never need to use it). I did look at this:

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2013/Aug-15.html

I wonder what response the python community might have.

GVR and a team of top people is working on the problem:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3156/

There's also Twisted: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/