Practice The Async And Await Keywords (1) - Chapter 8: Asynchronous Programming with asyncio

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Question 1.
What keyword is used to define a coroutine in Python?
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It starts with 'a'.
Question 2.
What does await do in a coroutine?
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It involves waiting!
3Question 3.
What keyword is used to declare a coroutine in Python?
- async
- await
- def
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It sounds like 'asynchronous'.
4Question 4.
True or False: If a coroutine is not awaited, it executes immediately.
- True
- False
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Consider what `await` actually does.
Question 5.
Create a program that fetches data from three different URLs asynchronously. Use async and await properly.
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Use asyncio.gather to combine the fetch tasks.
Question 6.
Explain how coroutines can improve the performance of a web scraping task compared to a synchronous approach.
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Consider the time spent waiting on requests.

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