Python 3.7 – asyncio.sleep() and time.sleep()

You aren’t seeing anything special because there’s nothing much asynchronous work in your code. However, the main difference is that time.sleep(5) is blocking, and asyncio.sleep(5) is non-blocking. When time.sleep(5) is called, it will block the entire execution of the script and it will be put on hold, just frozen, doing nothing. But when you call … Read more