Use These Methods to Make Your Python Concurrent Tasks Perform Better

Python Concurrency

Best practices for asyncio.gather, asyncio.as_completed, and asyncio.wait

Where the Problem Lies

It has always been the case that Python’s multi-threaded performance has never lived up to expectations because of GIL.

So since version 3.4, Python has introduced the asyncio package to execute IO-bound tasks through concurrency concurrently. After several iterations, the asyncio APIs have worked very well, and the performance of concurrent tasks has improved dramatically compared to the multi-threaded version. …

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