Async Programming in Python

Python async programming is not the same as multi-threading. Even though they both achieve concurrency, multi-threading tasks run in parallel on multiple threads, whereas async programming functions run asynchronously using the event loop.

Async programming is most useful when your program spends a lot of time waiting for input or output (I/O), like:

  • Web scraping many pages at the same time
  • Making multiple API calls at once
  • Reading or writing large files
  • Running database queries over a network

In Python, asynchronous programming is implemented using the asyncio library. A basic implementation is given below.

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