Steven D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> writes: > > But what's the point in doing it asynchronously if I have to just wait for > it to complete? > > begin downloading in an async thread > twiddle thumbs, doing nothing > process download
If you have nothing else to do, then there's no point. But suppose you're implementing a web server. A request comes in - in order to respond you need some data from a database. So you do the database bit async. Whilst you're waiting for that you can get on with processing other incoming requests. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
