[Twisted-Python] So... Python 3.4 is getting its own async I/O system

[Peter Westlake]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013, at 9:36, Glyph wrote:
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> Since async file I/O is not a thing you can implement[1], ...
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> [1]: <http://blog.libtorrent.org/2012/10/asynchronous-disk-io/>

Understood that it isn't possible to use native asynchronous I/O. But an
implementation that used threads behind the scenes and returned a
Deferred (for small files) or a Protocol (for big ones) would be a nice
thing to have.

Peter.