Async in Py4u

Async in the Python world

In the current Python ecosystem, packages tend to standardize around AsyncIO, provided in the Python standard library. AsyncIO can sometimes be judged as complex even by well known developers; this is in part due to the necessity of supporting other older asynchronous projects like twisted or tornado, but it’s also what makes a lots of its power: One event loop to rule them all.

Running a single async task requires you to learn about AsyncIO, write a non negligible amount of boilerplate code in order to fetch a single result. This can be especially cumbersome when doing interactive exploration, and likely will keep users from experimenting with AsyncIO code.

 

As Raymond Hettinger would says (slamming hand on podium): “There must be a better way”.

How to run a single async task in Python repl without async integration.