Re: [Async-sig] async file IO library

2018-06-09 Thread Nathaniel Smith
Using a thread pool is the right answer. There's some discussion here: https://github.com/python-trio/trio/issues/20 One thing Python could do to make this more effective would be to add a "buffer-only" mode for operations on file objects: https://bugs.python.org/issue32561 -n On Sat, Jun 9, 201

[Async-sig] async file IO library

2018-06-09 Thread Dima Tisnek
Hi group, It seems that Python docs don't make a recommendation about which library to use for asynchronous access to files when using asyncio. Is there a canonical recommendation? Is it a good idea? There's at least one 3rd party library popular enough to deserve own stackoverflow tag, however