<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Dec 21, 2012, at 1:10 PM, Guido van Rossum <<a href="mailto:guido@python.org">guido@python.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">> > TBD: Need an interface to wait for the first of a collection of Futures.<br>><br>> Have you looked at Twisted's DeferredList?<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/12.1.0/api/twisted.internet.defer.DeferredList.html">http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/12.1.0/api/twisted.internet.defer.DeferredList.html</a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">No, I am trying to stay away from them.</p></blockquote></div><br><div>Those who do not understand Deferreds are doomed to re-implement them poorly ;-). (And believe me, I've seen more than a few poor re-implementations at this point...)</div><div><br></div><div>-g</div></body></html>