Python 3.11: A Guided Tour Through Code Transcripts
Chapter: Concurrency Improvements
Lecture: TaskGroup Introduction
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If you're doing async work that involves more than one task and a lot of async work does imagine
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I want to log something to a file and put it into the cache or I want to get something from the database and call an API.
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At the same time. Well you're working with a group of tasks and Python 3.11 now has task groups
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specifically for that and this github issue as far as I can tell is the definitive source of this information
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I couldn't find a pep for it. Maybe I just missed it. I always thought perhaps for what we needed to make changes to the language,
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but it looks like this github issue by none other than jGuido Van Rossum himself is the definitive source of this
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information. Nonetheless, it's a really cool feature that allows us to start a bunch of tasks,
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wait for them all to finish if there's an error or we want to stop part way through cancel the ones
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that have not run a bunch of great features like that.