asyncio - run coroutine in the background

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:

> In a (non-Python) program of mine, I got annoyed by synchronous name
> lookups, so I hacked around it: instead of using the regular library
> functions, I just do a DNS lookup directly (which can then be
> event-based - send a UDP packet, get notified when a UDP packet
> arrives). Downside: Ignores /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/hosts, and
> goes straight to the name server. Upside: Is able to do its own
> caching, since the DNS library gives me the TTLs, but
> gethostbyname/getaddrinfo won't.

Ditto in a Python program of mine, although I don't bother with caching:
the DNS server is perfectly capable of caching the entries for me.


Marko