async-await Archives

Kotlin: Kotlin Coroutines the right way in Android

February 13, 2021 Baxter Jennifer

Question or issue of Kotlin Programming: I’m trying to update a list inside the adapter using async, I can see there is too much boilerplate.

Kotlin: What does the suspend function mean in a Kotlin Coroutine?

January 14, 2021 OSullivan Margaret

Question or issue of Kotlin Programming: I’m reading Kotlin Coroutine and know that it is based on suspend function. But what does suspend mean?

Simplest async/await example possible in Python

January 12, 2021 Andrew Rocky

Question or problem about Python programming: I’ve read many examples, blog posts, questions/answers about asyncio / async / await in Python 3.5+, many were complex, the simplest I found was probably this one. Still it uses ensure_future, and for learning purposes about asynchronous programming in Python, I would like to see an even more minimal […]

How to use async/await in Python 3.5?

January 7, 2021 Odhran Miss

Question or problem about Python programming: #!/usr/bin/env python3 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import time async def foo(): await time.sleep(1) foo() I couldn’t make this dead simple example to run: RuntimeWarning: coroutine ‘foo’ was never awaited foo() How to solve the problem: Solution 1: Running coroutines requires an event loop. Use the asyncio() library to […]

Combine awaitables like Promise.all

January 2, 2021 Simon Abital

Question or problem about Python programming: In asynchronous JavaScript, it is easy to run tasks in parallel and wait for all of them to complete using Promise.all: