await Is Not Optional in Async

💻 You’re racing 10 API calls with asyncio… and it still takes 10 seconds. Sound familiar?

async def fetch():
return requests.get(url).json() # ← Blocks the entire event loop

✅ Fix: await every I/O. Swap requests for httpx (same API, truly async).

import httpx
async def fetch():
async with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:
r = await client.get(url)
return r.json()

▶️ Now 10 calls = 1 second.