title: Make an async HTTP request and continue executing the loop
body: <p>I have a simple python function with the following pseudo-code:</p>
  <pre><code>while True:
  
      # 1 - CPU Intensive calculations(Synchronous)
      
      
      # 2 - Take the result from the synchronous calculation and POST it to a server
  </code></pre>
  <p>The while loop runs forever and does CPU intensive calculations for the first half of the loop. All of that is run synchronously and that's alright.
  What I'd like to do is shave off some time by making the POST request asynchronous. The while loop needs to run forever, however I'd like the request to be made asynchronously so that the loop can continue with the next iteration without waiting for the request to resolve.</p>
  <p>Would like to know what is the best way to achieve this with asyncio without using any extra threads/greenlets/processes</p>
  <p>Edit</p>
  <hr />
  <p>Before posting the question here, I have tried this approach:</p>
  <pre><code>async def example_function():
      # Synchronous CPU Intensive calculations
  
      client = httpx.AsyncClient()
      # Make a call to the REST API
      await client.post()
  
  
  async def main():
      while True:
          await asyncio.gather(example_function(), example_function())
  
  
  if __name__ == &quot;__main__&quot;:
      asyncio.run(main())
  </code></pre>
  <p>I am completely new to asynchronous programming with python. I tried the gather method, however the flaw with my implementation approach is that the second iteration of the example_function() does not make the POST req asynchronously. I understand that the asyncio.gather() basically schedules a task for each of the functions passed to it, and I one of the tasks awaits, it continues with execution of the next one. However, I need to run the example_function() in a loop forever and not just <strong>n</strong> times</p>