I'm learning Python, more specially parallel programming using Python Parallel Programming Cookbook by Giancarlo Zaccone.
At the time the book was published async/await was still in the beta version of Python, and so, the book doesn't cover it. It covers Asyncio. Now with the release of Python 3.5, async/await has been implemented in Python.
What are the differences between Asyncio.wait() and async/await? Is it just a syntax difference?
See this excellent blog post. In brief, asyncio is an event loop library (introduced in 3.4) that's focused on I/O, and largely on networking in particular. It introduced the asyncio.coroutine decorator to let you identify generators meant to be used as coroutines. In any generator, you can yield from any other generator (or coroutine).
In 3.5 the keywords async and await were introduced. You can only await inside an async function, and you can only await on a coroutine or Awaitable. You cannot await a general generator, and you cannot use yield or yield from. This helps protect against accidentally using a generator as a coroutine.
async and await are general enough to be used with any event loop provider, and asyncio happens to be one.
