Run coroutines and tasks in Python Naturally, the most common use for asyncio is to run the asynchronous parts of your Python script. This means learning to work with coroutines and tasks.

As an FYI, nosferatu-man's and my solutions are better than S. Carton's, but require Python 2.4. The "key" parameter to sort/sorted does a "Decorate-Sort-Undecorate" [1] automatically, whereas the ...

If you know how to use variables in Python, this works similarly: except instead of storing one piece of data as an integer, you are storing custom information about an object you conceived.