Durable Functions Support for Python

[asavaritayal]

New Feature - Looking for votes and/or user input to gauge traction.

[priyaananthasankar]

+1 Absolutely needed. Working on a small sample with asyncio to simulate something similar.

[gled4er]

+1

[yokawasa]

+1 Yes needed! Python has many choice of data science libraries and it definitely has long running & stateful scenario!

[tjhgit]

I am experimenting with triggering an azure batch job from an azure function. So this is completely asynchronous and you can also scale up the compute ressources easily in azure batch.

[mataralhawiti]

+1 Absolutely

[stereobutter]

+1 for long running analytics/ML jobs

[crgarcia12]

+1

[Sarah-Aly]

This is absolutely a needed feature. I do have a customer who uses Python in Azure Functions for manipulating CSVs & creating time series with Pandas and they are an ideal case for function chaining in DF.

[t-eckert]

+1 Happy to contribute

[asavaritayal]

/cc @cgillum @kashimiz as FYI