[samsquire]

Before the first await result1 the coroutine objects are in flight.

[Spivak]

Nope, creating the coroutines doesn’t schedule them for execution. That only happens on await. Python is not eager. If you want that behavior you need to use create_task. It doesn’t work like spawning a thread and waiting on them.

From the docs: https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html

> Note that simply calling a coroutine will not schedule it to be executed:

[samsquire]

Oh this is not what I expected.

I think on C# you can await threads which is similar to a join() with a return value.