Not blocking GUI by network worker needing asyncio?

[Kyle Altendorf]

On 2021-07-05 04:39, Axel Rau wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> my knowledge who GIT, threads and asyncio playing together is still 
> limited.
> I have long running network operations, using the dnspython package,
> which should not block the GUI.
> 
> Now the question: If elapsed time of net work is not an issue, do I
> need the async version of dnspython and async/qasync in my worker
> thread (setup per moveToThread and using an QEventLoop)?

I personally prefer to be able to use async/await for everything and not 
have to deal with threads.  For asyncio there's qasync (from asyncqt 
(from quamash)).

https://pypi.org/project/qasync/

But, if you do just push all your long running tasks into threads, sure, 
you can just use blocking versions.  Though, you still give up 
cancellability as compared with async options.

Cheers,
-kyle