The new asyncio module introduced in Python3.4 is a nice addition to the Python standard library, especially when used with the async and await keywords introduced in Python3.5.

If you have read the official docs, you should hopefully be able to be able to write high performance network servers and clients with asyncio. But if something goes wrong, you may find it hard to debug. This is no reflection on asyncio; concurrency and IO are deceptively complex things, and asyncio is the point they meet.

I suspect that the problem with debugging asyncio projects is that async code doesn't run itself. You are dependant on a rather large body of code to run your code for you, and the distinction between your code library code is far more blurry than you may be used to. continue reading…