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by neilkk 829 days ago
This isn't correct. TFA said that small threaded programs had been run successfully, but that the test suite broke in asyncio.

Async I/O and threads are two different things, and either can be present in real code without the other.
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wolletd 829 days ago
"small threaded programs had been run successfully"

I have ran a lot of programs containing race conditions successfully many times until I ran into an issue.

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Kranar 829 days ago
Not quite sure what your comment means exactly or how it implies what I said is incorrect.

At any rate, test_asyncio contains a lot of tests that involve threads and specifically thread safety between coroutines and those tests fail. As far as async I/O and threads being distinct, I mean sure that is true of a lot of features but people mix features together and mixing asyncio with threads will not work with this particular release.

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neilkk 827 days ago
> this release will break any code that uses threads.

> small threaded programs had been run successfully

The second obviously contradicts the first, doesn't it?

> mixing asyncio with threads will not work with this particular release.

That's a very different claim to the first, and one that no longer conflicts with the second, isn't it?

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