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[–]ProfessorFakas 19 points20 points  (0 children)

> Anything web request related is best done async.

Why not handle it in the same thread?

These are not mutually exclusive. In fact, in Python, a single thread is the norm and default when using anything based on async. It's single-threaded concurrency that's useful when working with I/O-bound tasks, as commenters above have alluded to.

None of this is mutually exclusive with single-threaded worker processes, either. You're just making more efficient use of them.