Async Python, Good it is

2/24/2023 at ConFoo in Montreal, Québec, Canada

Have you loved async & await in JavaScript and other languages? Wished you could add it to your Python? async.io is here! Now with async & await we can think synchronously and run asynchronously. But there’s some sharp edges and edge cases. Let’s look at how easy it is to do multiple tasks at once, and how we collect all the results. We’ll also look at best practices and edge cases like how do you kick off an async process from main?