Andy Sy <andy at neotitans.com> wrote: >> The Io language has what (on paper) seems to be a very > neat, Pythonic mechanism for doing asynchronous concurrency. >>> The mechanism is called futures and is described at: >> http://iolanguage.com/darcs/Io/_docs/guide.html#TOC17133 >>> Perhaps Python 3000 can incorporate some similar ideas > in its syntax or standard library? This has been the case since Python 2.2 (if I remember correctly), see generators. Python 2.5 adds a mechanism to pass information back into generators (gen.send()). - Josiah