Allowing the 'await' keyword to be omitted would also present some semantic and implementation difficulties. The mechanism behind 'await' is essentially the same as 'yield from', so you're more or less asking for 'yield from' to be automagically applied to the result of an expression.
But this would require reading the programmer's mind, because it's quite legitimate to create an iterator and keep it around to be yielded from later. Likewise, it's legitimate to create an awaitable object and then await it later. (Personally I think it *shouldn't* be legitimate to do that in the case of await, but Guido thinks otherwise, so it is the way it is.) -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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/WPY26CQVDOWUGQTC6FXLENDTMCSXDJ35/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
