Trio vs Asyncio: The Ultimate Guide to Async Programming in Python

See how Trio makes Python async programming easier than asyncio with clean code, structured concurrency, and real-world examples you can use today.

Writing async code in Python can sometimes feel like you’re trying to keep too many balls in the air at once—callbacks, event loops, and all the little details that come with them.

That’s exactly where Trio comes in. It’s a modern Python library that takes the stress out of async programming and makes it feel natural.

Instead of piling on complexity, Trio is built to be simple, safe, and easy to read, so your code ends up looking clean instead of confusing.

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Now you might be thinking, “Doesn’t Python already have asyncio?” It does, but Trio takes a different approach. Asyncio is powerful, but it can get messy fast with all the boilerplate and task management.

Trio, on the other hand, uses something called structured concurrency, which just means your tasks are organized and predictable. You don’t have to wonder what’s still running in the background or why something suddenly froze.

Honestly, when I first came across Trio, I didn’t see the point. Why learn another library when asyncio is already built in?

This is mean’t to teach that there is more than just one solution to a problem. This applies to anything in code really.

In this article, I’m going to walk you through Trio and show you three of its most useful functions. You’ll learn how to run tasks at the same time, cancel them cleanly, and write async code that’s easy to understand.

pip3 install trio

If asyncio has ever felt like a pain, Trio might be exactly what you need.

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