asyncio
/eɪˈsɪŋk.aɪ.oʊ/ · Noun · Development
Definitions
Python's standard library module for writing single-threaded concurrent code using coroutines, event loops, and non-blocking I/O — the foundation of modern async Python frameworks like FastAPI and aiohttp.
In plain English: Python's built-in toolkit for doing many things at once (like fetching multiple web pages) without using multiple threads.
Example: "We rewrote the scraper with asyncio and aiohttp, bringing the crawl time from 40 minutes down to 3."
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