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Sun Jul 9 11:56:25 CEST 2006 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-July/067170.html

Ka-Ping Yee <python-dev at zesty.ca> writes:

> Client-side web scripting tends to have a callback/continuation-ish
> concurrency style because it has to deal with network transactions
> (which can stall for long periods of time) in a user interface that
> is expected to stay always responsive.  The Firefox API is full of
> listeners/observers, events, and continuation-like things.  So one
> thing to consider is that, when Python is used for these purposes,
> it may be written in a specialized style.

You could even call it a Twisted style :-)

Cheers,
mwh

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