Asyncio -- delayed calculation

Gregory Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Nov 30 07:40:48 EST 2016


Chris Angelico wrote:
> From the point of view of
> the rest of Python, no. It's a sign saying "Okay, Python, you can
> alt-tab away from me now".

The problem with that statement is it implies that if
you omit the "await", then the thing you're calling
will run uninterruptibly. Whereas what actually happens
is that it doesn't get run at all.

-- 
Greg



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