Async-Await in Python

Learn the concept of async-await and implement it in Python using asyncio.

Asyncio module in python

The asynchronous way of programming is very popular in javascript. In NodeJS, you have the in-built support of implementing async functionality. In Python, building async applications is now supported by using the asyncio package. The asyncio is a style of concurrent programming, but it is not parallelism. It is more closely aligned with threading than with multiprocessing but is very much distinct from both of these. asyncio uses cooperative multitasking.

Wikipedia gives the following definition of cooperative multitasking: ...