On 11/12/2015 2:37 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Christian Gollwitzer <aurio...@gmx.de> wrote:
My understanding of async is that it creates an event loop. In which case
the loop has no chance to run within a block of code that computes anything,
is that correct?
This is correct. At its simplest, asynchronous code is an abstraction
over the select() call,
True on Unix-derived systems, where 'select' includes the various
derivatives. It is also an abstraction over the Windows completion
calls, which are quite different. The latter is why one must generally
use a different event loop on Windows. The point is that asyncio
provides an *abstraction* such that after choosing the event loop, the
rest of one's code is os-agnostic.
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