Practice Creating Multiple Tasks (2.2) - Chapter 8: Asynchronous Programming with asyncio

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Question 1.
What is a coroutine in Python?
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Think about how it differs from a regular function.
Question 2.
What does the event loop do?
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Consider it as a conductor for concurrent execution.
3Question 3.
What is the purpose of the asyncio library?
- To create threads
- To enable asynchronous programming
- To handle exceptions
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Consider the main usage of async functions.
4Question 4.
True or False: Coroutines must always be awaited to execute.
- True
- False
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Think about what happens when you call them.
Question 5.
Create a program that fetches data from three different URLs asynchronously using asyncio and display the results.
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Use asyncio and aiohttp together to manage HTTP requests concurrently.
Question 6.
Explain how you would structure an asyncio application that reads files from disk and processes them without blocking other application tasks.
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Consider using aiofiles for file operations.

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