Eu queria saber como eu poderia usar o assíncio para lidar com tarefas semelhantes ao que o nodeJS faz. Quero executar tarefas ao mesmo tempo sem abrir threads. Exemplo:

import asyncio

@asyncio.coroutine
def my_coroutine(task_name, seconds_to_sleep=3):
    print('{0} sleeping for: {1} seconds'.format(task_name, seconds_to_sleep))
    yield from asyncio.sleep(seconds_to_sleep)
    print('{0} is finished'.format(task_name))


loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
tasks = [
    my_coroutine('task1', 4),
    my_coroutine('task2', 3),
    my_coroutine('task3', 2)]
loop.run_until_complete(asyncio.wait(tasks))
loop.close()

irá produzir:

task1 sleeping for: 4 seconds
task2 sleeping for: 3 seconds
task3 sleeping for: 2 seconds
task3 is finished
task2 is finished
task1 is finished

mas quando tento fazê-lo com uma tarefa diferente, não funciona assim.

import asyncio
import timeit

@asyncio.coroutine
def my_coroutine(task_name):
    print('order placed for ' + task_name)
    print(timeit.timeit('1 + 3 ', number=50000000))
    print(task_name + ' done')


loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
tasks = [
    my_coroutine('task1'),
    my_coroutine('task2'),
    my_coroutine('task3')]
loop.run_until_complete(asyncio.wait(tasks))
loop.close()

saídas

order placed for task2
0.6677237730912453
task2 done
order placed for task1
0.6627442526498016
task1 done
order placed for task3
0.665618849882418
task3 done