July 2019
Beginner to intermediate
302 pages
9h 38m
English
Content preview from Flask Framework Cookbook - Second Edition
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Understanding asynchronous operations
Some of the operations in a web application can be time-consuming and make the overall application feel slow for the user, even though it's not actually slow. This hampers the user experience significantly. To deal with this, the simplest way to implement the asynchronous execution of operations is with the help of threads. In this recipe, we will implement this using the threading libraries of Python. In Python 3, the thread package has been deprecated. Although it is still available as _thread, it is highly recommended to use threading.