Event Loop
Explore the Python event loop and its role in asynchronous programming. Understand how it manages events, runs tasks, and improves performance by handling I/O operations without blocking the CPU. This lesson helps you grasp why event loops are favored in webservers and concurrency scenarios.
We'll cover the following...
Event Loop
The event loop is a programming construct that waits for events to happen and then dispatches them to an event handler. An event can be a user clicking on a UI button or a process initiating a file download. At the core of asynchronous programming, sits the event loop. The concept isn't novel to Python. In fact, many programming languages enable asynchronous programming with event loops. In Python, event loops run asynchronous tasks and callbacks, perform network IO operations, run subprocesses and delegate ...