[stinos]

one problem only: when the bottleneck of your program is network IO

Do you mean literally what this says, or are you rather using 'network IO' as some (extremely) abstract term for any type of communication? Just checking because I haven't used asynchronous programming in Python but did so in other languages and we do things like await hardwareAxis.GoToTargetPosition(position=50, veolcity=100). Not what most people think of when reading network IO, that one.

[sametmax]

While async / await, futures, and the event loop are generic mechanisms, the asyncio module itself only implement selectors for sockets (ok, and subprocess pipes). You can't even do async file system operations with it: you need to call run_in_executor().

Now that doesn't mean you could not implement a selector that does asynchronous UI IO and plug it to the event loop. But the asyncio module doesn't provide it right now, and no lib that I know of does it either.