c# async, await

[Neal Becker]

So my son is now spending his days on c# and .net.  He's enthusiastic about 
async and await, and said to me last evening, "I don't think python has anything 
like that".  I'm not terribly knowledgeable myself regarding async programming 
(since I never need to use it).  I did look at this:

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2013/Aug-15.html

I wonder what response the python community might have.