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by pekk 4868 days ago
These are great. If only one could write async network code with these that wasn't vastly more complicated than the equivalent gevent code.
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Tulip coroutines[0] look rather good. As with C#'s async/await you have to propagate the "asyncness" to the event loop (using `yield from` with a future or another coroutine), which is not necessary in gevent, but that should be the extent of it.

[0] http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3156/#coroutines-and-the-...

The implementation described in that PEP is massive. Seems pretty hard to explain...