February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
16h 50m
English
Content preview from Advanced Python Programming
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Questions
- What is asynchronous programming? What advantages does it provide?
- What are the main elements in an asynchronous program? How do they interact with each other?
- What are the async and await keywords? What purposes do they serve?
- What options does the asyncio module provide, in terms of the implementation of asynchronous programming?
- What are the improvements in regards to asynchronous programming provided in Python 3.7?
- What are blocking functions? Why do they pose a problem for traditional asynchronous programming?
- How does concurrent.futures provide a solution to blocking functions for asynchronous programming? What options does it provide?