python-asyncio TypeError: object dict can't be used in 'await' expression

Question

I am using a third party module to retrieve data from an API. I simply would like to asynchronously await the module to return the data which occasionally takes several seco

Answer 1

As thirdPartyAPIWrapper.data() is a normal sync function you should call it in another thread.

There is a helper function for that in a asgiref library.
Assume we've got a blocking function with an argument:

import asyncio
import time

from asgiref.sync import sync_to_async


def blocking_function(seconds: int) -> str:
    time.sleep(seconds)
    return f"Finished in {seconds} seconds"

async def main():
    seconds_to_sleep = 5
    function_message = await sync_to_async(blocking_function)(seconds_to_sleep)
    print(function_message)

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(main())
loop.close()

There is also an async_to_sync helper function in that library.