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``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