Relinquishing control in Python asyncio

asyncio in Python is a form of co-operative multitasking, where everything runs in a single thread but asynchronous tasks can yield to other tasks to allow them to execute.

Normally you do this with await - but I'm thinking through a problem at the moment which could involve long-running asyncio functions. To avoid blocking the event loop, I'd like them to periodically yield to see if there are any other tasks that need to spend some time with the CPU.

This doesn't seem to be covered in the Python asyncio documentation, but after some digging I came across this issue in the old python/asyncio repo: Question: How to relinquishing control to the event loop in Python 3.5

It turns out the supported, optimized idiom is this one:

await asyncio.sleep(0)

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Created 2020-12-29T11:25:14-08:00 · Edit