On May 5, 2015 2:14 PM, "Guido van Rossum" <gu...@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. -n
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