On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 2:58 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> First, "start executing immediately" is an overstatement, right? They won't
> run until the caller executes a (possibly unrelated) `await`.
Well, traditional Future-returning functions often do execute some
logic immediately, but right, wh
First, "start executing immediately" is an overstatement, right? They won't
run until the caller executes a (possibly unrelated) `await`. And I'm still
unclear why anyone would care, *except* in the case where they've somehow
learned by observation that "real" coroutines don't start immediately and
Hi all,
This is a bit of a wacky idea, but I think it might be doable and have
significant benefits, so throwing it out there to see what people
think.
In asyncio, there are currently three kinds of calling conventions for
asynchronous functions:
1) Ones which return a Future
2) Ones which retur