On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Steve D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Nov 2016 02:53 am, Ian Kelly wrote: > >> In order for the coroutines to actually do anything, you need to >> schedule them in some way with the event loop. That could take the >> form of awaiting them from some other coroutine, or passing them >> directly to loop.run_until_complete or event_loop.create_task, or as >> Chris suggested awaiting them as an aggregate. > > I thought that's what I had done, by calling > > loop.run_until_complete(main())
That's invoking a single task, main(). If you were to write this code using threads, main would need to be thread-aware so that it can fork appropriately - it needs to start new threads for the subtasks. Tasks in asyncio are like cooperatively-switched threads or threadlets, and if you want them to run in parallel, you have to instruct them to run as separate tasks. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
