requests is inherently synchronous and blocks the event loop, negating the benefits of asyncio. This means that while the functions are defined with async, they don't perform asynchronous I/O operations; instead, they block the event loop until each HTTP request is completed.
Anton Egorov
requests is inherently synchronous and blocks the event loop, negating the benefits of asyncio. This means that while the functions are defined with async, they don't perform asynchronous I/O operations; instead, they block the event loop until each HTTP request is completed.