articles/2024/09/23/async-to-sync/

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Automatic async to sync code conversion — Psycopg

Python adapter for PostgreSQL

https://www.psycopg.org/articles/2024/09/23/async-to-sync/

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I found this post because I don't get the appeal of async-await, but definitely have some issues with database io via Django for which i'm trying to find a solution, and async - other than breaking everything - would be one route to a fix.

What is it about async code that couldn't be accomplished better by a Python runtime mode/flag that handles the boundaries where blocking calls occur in an async "style" that jumps to other unblocked code inside an internally-managed event-loop? (and then extend that mechanism so C-level python extensions can handle async dispatch too.)

This AST parsing to solve the maintenance burden of double async+sync functions is the logical endpoint for the situation we have found ourselves in. But - and I ask in this odd forum because you are the person who wrote exactly this kind of code - why are we here? Legit: what am I missing about async/await that means we actually needed to bifurcate so much code?