Multiple awaits run their targets one after the other, not concurrently

• asyncio
• await
• async

The async/await syntax merely enables to run other tasks concurrently. It does not automatically define/create tasks, but executes its statements/expression one after the other.

The user is confused because they have a setup of async and await, but things still execute one after the other:

async def main():
    await some_async_a()
    await some_async_b()  # only runs after `some_async_a` completed

The correct approach is to explicitly create tasks for concurrent work. This requires framework specific utilities, such as asyncio.create_task or asyncio.gather for asyncio.

• Starvation in `asyncio` loop