Hands-On RESTful Python Web Services - Second Edition

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Let's see whether you can answer the following questions correctly:

1. Future does which of the following?
   1. Encapsulates the asynchronous execution of a callable
   2. Encapsulates the synchronous execution of a callable
   3. Runs an asynchronous method synchronously on the executor specified as an argument

2. The concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor class provides us with which of the following?
   1. A high-level interface for synchronously executing callables
   2. A high-level interface for asynchronously executing callables
   3. A high-level interface for composing HTTP requests

3. The @tornado.concurrent.run_on_executor decorator allows us to do which of the following?
   1. Run an asynchronous method synchronously on an executor
   2. Run an asynchronous ...