From 5c30145afb6053998e3518befff638d207047f00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Willison Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 18:03:18 -0800 Subject: bpo-42783: Documentation for asyncio.sleep(0) (#24002) Co-authored-by: Ken Jin <28750310+Fidget-Spinner@users.noreply.github.com> --- Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst index 45e5843..1ca1b4a 100644 --- a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst +++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst @@ -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 -- cgit v0.12