Explain await's purpose, awaitable types, and event loop signaling
This tests whether you understand await as a yield point. A strong answer lists three awaitables (coroutines, Tasks, Futures), explains await yields control to the event loop until completion, and warns that a bare coroutine call does not run it.
This tests whether you understand await as a suspension point that yields control to the event loop rather than blocking the thread. A strong answer identifies the three awaitable types from the asyncio documentation: coroutines, Tasks, and Futures. It explains that await pauses the coroutine, returns control to the event loop, and resumes when the awaitable finishes. A red flag is claiming await blocks the thread or that calling an async def function runs its body.
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