[Python-Dev] Accepting PEP 492 (async/await)

Everybody, In order to save myself a major headache I'm hereby accepting PEP 492. I've been following Yury's efforts carefully and I am fully confident that we're doing the right thing here. There is only so much effort we can put into clarifying terminology and explaining coroutines. Somebody should write a tutorial. (I started to write one, but I ran out of time after just describing basic yield.) I've given Yury clear instructions to focus on how to proceed -- he's to work with another core dev on getting the implementation ready in time for beta 1 (scheduled for May 24, but I think the target date should be May 19). The acceptance is provisional in the PEP 411 sense (stretching its meaning to apply to language changes). That is, we reserve the right to change the specification (or even withdraw it, in a worst-case scenario) until 3.6, although I expect we won't need to do this except for some peripheral issues (e.g. the backward compatibility flags). I now plan to go back to PEP 484 (type hints). Fortunately in that case there's not much *implementation* that will land (just the typing.py module), but there's still a lot of language in the PEP that needs updating (check the PEP 484 tracker <https://github.com/ambv/typehinting/issues>). -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20150505/15c8add8/attachment-0001.html>