I discovered asyncio when I stumped on this [1] blog post (linked also at asyncio.org).

It was exactly what I needed for a personal project (a fast webscraping thing); before asyncio I went for the threads solution, but this thing performs one thousand times better.

I am really optimistic about this library, as the fact that is a core lib will make I/O with python A LOT easier.

[1]: http://compiletoi.net/fast-scraping-in-python-with-asyncio.h...