I'm happy to defer to Antoine, who is the subject expert here (and Brian Quinlan, the original author).
On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 6:48 AM Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 09:29:36 -0500 > Kyle Stanley <aeros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > After Andrew explained his own use case for it with isolating bugs to > > ensure that the issue wasn't occurring as a result of parallelism, > threads, > > processes, etc; I certainly can see how it would be useful. I could also > > see a use case in a CLI tool for a conveniently similar parallel and > > non-parallel version, although I'd likely prefer just having an entirely > > separate implementation. Particularly if the parallel version includes > > diving a large, computationally intensive task into many sub-tasks (more > > common for PPE), that seems like it could result in significant > additional > > unneeded overhead for the non-parallel version. > > > > I think at this point, it's potential usefulness is clear though. But, > IMO, > > the main question is now the following: would it be better *initially* > > placed in the standard library or on PyPI (which could eventually > > transition into stdlib if it sees widespread usage)? > > I don't think we need to be dogmatic here. If someone wants to provide > it on PyPI, then be it. But if they'd rather contribute it to the > stdlib, we should examine the relevant PR at face value. > > Asking it to be exercised first on PyPI is worthwhile if the domain > space is complex or there are multiple possible APIs. It's not really > the case here: the API is basically constrained (it must be an > Executor) and the main unknown seems to be whether execution is lazily > or immediate (which may be as well governed by a constructor > parameter). And the implementation shouldn't be very hairy either :-) > > Regards > > Antoine. > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/U5AOBMMGIANXFJEKMZYMWNQSY7D6RPL5/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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