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The thing I like about async Python is being able to run subprocesses and capture and processes their stdout/stderr

• viraptor 7y ago
  You can do that without async in python. What did you find specific to it?
  • ComputerGuru 7y ago
    I imagine he means without having to understand/use the platform or framework equivalent of select/poll or start dedicated threads or write a threadpool to handle reading from streams simultaneously without blocking. Now he has someone else wrote that code for him ;)
  • andrewstuart 7y ago
    It's live and immediate and simultaneous, which you can only get with async or multithreading. Async Python gives you the ability to set up functions that act upon multiple stdout/stderr streams and process them in real time.