📝 Clarify guidance on using async def
without await
#13642
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Summary
This PR improves the clarity of the "Concurrency and async/await" section in the documentation.
The original sentence: "If your application (somehow) doesn't have to communicate with anything else and wait for it to respond, use async def."
has been updated to:
"If your application doesn't need to communicate with anything else or await a response, it's still safe to use
async def
-- even if there's nothing toawait
."Why this change?
The original phrasing could be misinterpreted as recommending
async def
even when it’s not useful. The new wording keeps the reassuring tone but clarifies that usingasync def
withoutawait
is safe — not required.Notes