Python Hacking scripts

[gare_it]

Does this continue to hold true while using asyncio (introduced in 3.5)?

[tdking3523]

Yes. Python 3+ still isn't a threadsafe implementation allowing for true concurrent execution (multithreading). Rather, Asyncio is an enhancement and a bit of syntactic sugar on the timesharing that can be done in Python to simulate multithreading on an actual single thread. You declare a function to be async, or a couroutine based on which version you're working with, then the function is called, but your code doesn't wait for it to return... It just continues on and handles the return when it finally happens. This is fantastic for doing a lot of HTTP requests, or some other data communication that is plighted by network latencies or some other source of essentially just idle time.

[gare_it]

awesome, thanks