> especially if you need to support both sync and async I don't think there's any possible way to do that elegantly. maybe gevent-style monkeypatching makes i

> especially if you need to support both sync and async I don't think there's any possible way to do that elegantly. maybe gevent-style monkeypatching makes it look elegant, but there's a whole pile of inelegant stuff happening under the covers to present that illusion. and I would say that almost by definition, if you're monkeypatching the stdlib, you are banished from the realm of elegance.