Asyncio -- delayed calculation

[Chris Angelico]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 1:23 PM, Steve D'Aprano
<steve+python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> This is confusing: why is this awaiting something inside an async function?
> Doesn't that mean that the await asyncio.gather(...) call is turned
> blocking?

"await" means "don't continue this function until that's done". It
blocks the function until a non-blocking operation is done.

ChrisA