How asyncio works? and event loop vs exceptions

2016-07-22 Thread Marco S. via Python-list
I'm developing a web app based on aiohttp, and I find the event loop concept very interesting. I never programmed with it before, but I know that node.js and GUIs are based on it. What I can't understand is how asyncio make it possible to run multiple tasks concurrently, since it's single threaded

Re: Suggestion: make sequence and map interfaces more similar

2016-03-27 Thread Marco S. via Python-list
Steven D'Aprano wrote: > The point you might have missed is that treating lists as if they were > mappings violates at least one critical property of mappings: that the > relationship between keys and values are stable. This is true for immutable maps, but for mutable ones, you can simply do ma

Suggestion: make sequence and map interfaces more similar

2016-03-23 Thread Marco S. via Python-list
I noticed that the sequence types does not have these methods that the map types has: get(), items(), keys(), values(). It could seem useless to have them for sequences, but I think it will ease the creation of functions and methods that allow you to input a generic iterable as parameter, but nee