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I kind of wish we'd just add Go-style CSP to python and call it a day - it seems to be the best of both worlds when it comes "do two things at the same time".

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I'm not sure how much it replicates the CSP model, but the closest thing I've found to Go-style concurrency in Python is gevent: https://github.com/gevent/gevent

I personally still prefer to use it in all my projects.

I do, too, for websites, although I try to avoid dependencies like a snowflake the fire. But doing nothing more than using gevent server and putting

  from gevent import monkey
  monkey.patch_all()

at the top of the main module was such a game changer.

I actually tried to build a CSP interface on top of AsyncIO, It's still experimental an I haven't developed it for sometime but you know, It works.

https://github.com/Yaser-Amiri/one-ring/blob/main/docs/sampl...

As long as GIL exists with current conditions, we will not have a Go-like CSP, but that's about scheduling, not the CSP itself.

Well that's the thought: GIL-less Python is coming, at which point we can actually have something like this and it'll just work.

Go's concurrency is such a breath of fresh air whenever I interact with it.

Python would be immediately so much easier to use for so many other cases if it implemented something similar.

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