[vtbassmatt]

Is there a thorough getting started guide for asyncio floating someplace on the web? I tried to pick up asyncio a few weeks ago. The official documentation assumes a lot of background that I don't possess, despite being a long-time Python user. Each method and class seems to be documented, but conceptual and end-to-end examples were much less common. Thanks in advance!

[phenom]

asyncio is just nice API for async programing and event loop management. You should start from something high level in order to obtain asyncio ideas, like scraping [1] or try web development with aiohttp [2]. And then if you want to write some library or port database driver, look for examples at aio-libs[3] github organization.

[1] http://compiletoi.net/fast-scraping-in-python-with-asyncio.h...

[2] https://github.com/KeepSafe/aiohttp

[3] https://github.com/aio-libs