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diff --git a/bot/resources/tags/async-await.md b/bot/resources/tags/async-await.md index e945240ba..52d3e47e0 100644 --- a/bot/resources/tags/async-await.md +++ b/bot/resources/tags/async-await.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ async def main(): ``` Which means we can call `await something_awaitable()` directly from within the function. If this were a non-async function, it would raise the exception `SyntaxError: 'await' outside async function` -To run the top level async function from outside the event loop we need to use `[asyncio.run()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#asyncio.run), like this: +To run the top level async function from outside the event loop we need to use [`asyncio.run()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#asyncio.run), like this: ```py import asyncio @@ -22,6 +22,6 @@ async def main(): asyncio.run(main()) ``` -Note that in the `asyncio.run()` where we appear to be calling `main()`, this does not execute the code in `main`, rather it returns a `coroutine` object which is then handled and run by the event loop via `asyncio.run`. +Note that in the `asyncio.run()`, where we appear to be calling `main()`, this does not execute the code in `main`. Rather, it creates and returns a new `coroutine` object (i.e `mmain() is not main()`) which is then handled and run by the event loop via `asyncio.run()`. To learn more about asyncio and its use, see the [asyncio documentation](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html). |