Question: How to call an async function synchronously

[dewoller]

Hello @ms-jpq , thanks again for the lovely code and tutorial. It is helping me slowly get my head around asynchronous programming. Can you tell me how you would call an one of your async function synchronously?

For example, using your tutorial code:

print('sync example start ')
print( async_tasks_2(1)())
print('sync example end')

prints

sync example start                                                                                                                                                                                                              
sync example end
1 2
3 4

I would like it to print

sync example start                                                                                                                                                                                                              
1 2
3 4
sync example end

:-)

Tutorials in other languages talk about blocking until the task is finished, but if I try to wait without the surrounding sync, there are issues.