It’s a smart way ... loop from another thread. At this point, you may be wondering: Why use async instead of threads or multiprocessing, both of which have been long available in Python?

If you’ve ever written any Python at all, the chances are you’ve used iterators without even realising it. Writing your own and using them in your programs can provide significant performance ...

Python's "multiprocessing" module feels like threads, but actually launches processes. Many people, when they start to work with Python, are excited to hear that the language supports threading. And, ...