Does asyncio supports asynchronous I/O for file operations?
Does asyncio supports asynchronous I/O for file operations? If yes, how I can use this in Python 3.5 with async/await syntax code? Andrew Svetlov Most operating systems don't support asynchronous file operations. That's why asyncio doesn't support them either. See the asyncio wiki for further explanation. That depends what library you use. curio offers this functionality, https://curio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference.html#module-curio.file plain asyncio doesn't, but there are 3rd party libraries, e.g. https://github.com/Tinche/aiofiles (which is really synchronous file access isolated in