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0 pointspdhborges2y ago0 comments

Look at the intended semantics [1], and then read the implementation [2]. Can you figure out if the implementation is correct? Can you infer the possible limitations of the approach at glance? Can your async library actually handle being called with multiple event loops installed?

I have zero trust in this code and I have been bitten by fixes to this library that introduced deadlocks in my own code.

[1] https://github.com/django/asgiref#synchronous-code--threads.

[2] https://github.com/django/asgiref/blob/main/asgiref/sync.py#...

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lisasays2y ago

Doesn't look like something I'd want to have to debug in a pinch, that's for sure.

Is there anything else in Python-land you would go with for the use case you have in mind? Or does pretty much all the async stuff turn on you like this, at some point or another?

pdhborgesOP2y ago

If you need to buy into the async ecosystem for some special reason my recomendation is to:

- pick a mature ASGI server

- pick a framework and libraries that have been designed from the start with async in mind. Be suspicious of libraries that support sync and async APIs without clear guard rails between the too implementations

- avoid setups where you have multiple event loops in a single process.

lisasays2y ago

Thanks - so is there anything in the Python space that ticks those boxes, in your view?

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lisasays2y ago

Doesn't look like something I'd want to have to debug in a pinch, that's for sure.

Is there anything else in Python-land you would go with for the use case you have in mind? Or does pretty much all the async stuff turn on you like this, at some point or another?

pdhborgesOP2y ago

If you need to buy into the async ecosystem for some special reason my recomendation is to:

- pick a mature ASGI server

- avoid setups where you have multiple event loops in a single process.

lisasays2y ago

Thanks - so is there anything in the Python space that ticks those boxes, in your view?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse