A note on coroutines

A coroutine is a function that is either decorated with @asyncio.coroutine for python 3.4 or defined with async def in python 3.5+.

Coroutines are not like regular functions, if you invoke it as usual, it will not be executed. The proper way to call a coroutine is to use yield from in python 3.4 or await in python 3.5+, like so:

# With python 3.4
@asyncio.coroutine
def my_coro():
    yield from another_coro()

# With python 3.5+
async def my_coro():
    await another_coro()

As you can see async programming has slight syntax nuances between python 3.4 and python 3.5+. It is highly recommended to use python 3.5+.