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authorSimon Willison <swillison@gmail.com>2021-01-07 02:03:18 (GMT)
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bpo-42783: Documentation for asyncio.sleep(0) (#24002)
Co-authored-by: Ken Jin <28750310+Fidget-Spinner@users.noreply.github.com>
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@@ -293,6 +293,10 @@ Sleeping
``sleep()`` always suspends the current task, allowing other tasks
to run.
+ Setting the delay to 0 provides an optimized path to allow other
+ tasks to run. This can be used by long-running functions to avoid
+ blocking the event loop for the full duration of the function call.
+
.. _asyncio_example_sleep:
Example of coroutine displaying the current date every second