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bpo-42783: documentation for asyncio.sleep(0)
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simonw authored Dec 29, 2020
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Expand Up @@ -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 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
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