[Python-ideas] PEP 525: Asynchronous Generators

[Cory Benfield]

> On 11 Aug 2016, at 16:22, Thomas Güttler <guettliml at thomas-guettler.de> wrote:
> 
> The user there writes: [about await] That sounds quite like Cooperative multitasking to me.
> 
> In 1996 I was a student at university and was told that preemptive multitasking is better.
> 
> Since tools like http://python-rq.org/ can be implemented in Python2.7 I ask myself: why change the language?
> 
> My opinion: if you want to do parallel processing, use a tool like python-rq or celery.

I agree. async/await doesn’t do parallel processing, it does concurrent processing. See also: https://blog.golang.org/concurrency-is-not-parallelism <https://blog.golang.org/concurrency-is-not-parallelism>

Cory
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