February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
16h 50m
English
Content preview from Advanced Python Programming
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Asynchronous versus other programming models
Asynchronous programming is one of the major concepts in concurrency specifically, and in programming in general. However, it is quite a complex concept that can be considerably challenging for us to sometimes differentiate it from other programming models. In this section, we will be comparing asynchronous programming with synchronous programming and other concurrent programming models that we have seen (that is, threading and multiprocessing).