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| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@dropbox.com> | 2013-11-22 19:47:22 (GMT) |
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| committer | Guido van Rossum <guido@dropbox.com> | 2013-11-22 19:47:22 (GMT) |
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asyncio: Pass cancellation from wrapping Future to wrapped Future. By Saúl Ibarra Corretgé (mostly).
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diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0decdc7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Doc/library/asyncio.rst @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +:mod:`asyncio` -- Asynchronous I/O, event loop, coroutines and tasks +==================================================================== + +.. module:: asyncio + :synopsis: Asynchronous I/O, event loop, coroutines and tasks. + +.. versionadded:: 3.4 + + +Introduction +------------ + +This package includes a pluggable event loop, transport and protocol +abstractions similar to those in Twisted, and a higher-level scheduler +for coroutines and tasks based on ``yield from`` (:PEP:`380`). + +Full documentation is not yet ready; we hope to have it written +before Python 3.4 leaves beta. Until then, the best reference is +:PEP:`3156`. For a motivational primer on transports and protocols, +see :PEP:`3153`. |