Practice Best Practices (6) - Chapter 8: Asynchronous Programming with asyncio

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Question 1.
What function do you use to start the main coroutine in asyncio?
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It's a function that handles the event loop.
Question 2.
Mention a blocking function you should avoid in async programming.
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Think about what happens when time.sleep() is called.
3Question 3.
What is the recommended way to start an async coroutine in Python?
- async run()
- asyncio.run()
- run_async()
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Remember the specific function prefix.
4Question 4.
True or False: Always awaiting a coroutine is optional in async programming.
- True
- False
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Consider what awaits does every time.
Question 5.
Create an asynchronous web scraper using aiohttp. Describe how you ensure it doesn’t block.
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Consider how you will structure multiple await calls.
Question 6.
Explain how you would refactor a synchronous function that reads a file to work asynchronously. What libraries would you use?
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Consider how file handling differs in async contexts.

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