[HN Gopher] Tinyio: A tiny (~200 line) event loop for Python
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       Tinyio: A tiny (~200 line) event loop for Python
        
       Author : tehnub
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2025-07-22 22:02 UTC (4 days ago)
        
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       | codethief wrote:
       | > Somewhat unusually, our syntax uses yield rather than await,
       | but the behaviour is the same. Await another coroutine with yield
       | coro. Await on multiple with yield [coro1, coro2, ...] (a
       | 'gather' in asyncio terminology; a 'nursery' in trio
       | terminology).
       | 
       | Why, though?
        
         | dmerrick wrote:
         | > The reason is that await does not offer a suspension point to
         | an event loop (it just calls `__await__` and maybe that offers
         | a suspension point), so if we wanted to use that syntax then
         | we'd need to replace `yield coro` with something like await
         | `tinyio.Task(coro)`. The traditional syntax is not worth the
         | extra class.
        
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