Advanced Python Programming

Asynchronous versus threading and multiprocessing

While providing somewhat similar benefits to those that threading and multiprocessing provide, asynchronous programming is fundamentally different from these two programming models, especially in the Python programming language.

As we know, in multiprocessing, multiple copies of our main program—together with its instructions and variables—are created and executed independently across different cores. Threads, which are also known as lightweight processes, operate on the same basis: although the code is not executed in separate cores, independent portions of the code that are executed in separate threads do not interact with one another either.

Asynchronous programming, on the other hand, ...