Description
Python 3's new “asyncio” module is an efficient async framework similar to Node. But unlike Node, it emphasizes a modern idiom called "coroutines", rather than callbacks. Coroutines promise the best of two worlds: the efficiency of callbacks, but with a natural and robust coding style similar to synchronous programming.
In barely 30 minutes I live-code a Python 3 async framework. First, I show how an async framework uses non-blocking sockets, callbacks, and an event loop. This version of the framework is very efficient, but callbacks make a mess of the code. Therefore, I implement coroutines using Python generators and two classes called Future and Task, and update my little framework to use coroutines instead of callbacks.
The live-coding demo isn't just a magic trick: watch to see how simply a coroutine-based async framework can be implemented, and gain a deep understanding of this miraculous new programming idiom in the Python 3 standard library.