[Twisted-Python] Twisted and PEP 3148 support

[Christopher Armstrong]

2011/1/10 Alex Grönholm <alex.gronholm at nextday.fi>

> There has been some discussion over email between myself and several
> Twisted developers regarding the possibility of adding support for PEP
> 3148 futures and executors to Twisted. I'm starting this thread to move
> the conversation to this mailing list to gain a broader audience.
>
> For those who do not know what PEP 3148 is about, suffice to say that
> it's an API for deferred execution of code.



I just want to make clear up-front the subtle point that Twisted's Deferreds
are not tools for "deferred execution of code", but rather for "deferred
receipt of results". It's easy to forget this and believe that the similar
jargon implies similarity in purpose.


-- 
Christopher Armstrong
http://radix.twistedmatrix.com/
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