I've read many examples, blog posts, questions/answers about asyncio / async / await in Python 3.5+, many were complex, the simplest I found was probably this one. Still it uses ensure_future, and for learning purposes about asynchronous programming in Python, I would like to see an even more minimal example, and what are the minimal tools necessary to do a basic async / await example. Question: is it possible to give a simple example showing how async / await works, by using only these two keywords + code to run the async loop + other Python code but no other asyncio functions? Example: something like this: import asyncio async def async_foo(): print("async_foo started") await asyncio.sleep(5) print("async_foo done") async def main(): asyncio.ensure_future(async_foo()) # fire and forget async_foo() print('Do some actions 1') await asyncio.sleep(5) print('Do some actions 2') loop = asyncio.get_event_loop() loop.run_until_complete(main()) but without ensure_future, and still demonstrates how await / async works. Continue reading...
