Example of how to use async/await programming in Python for non-asyncio purposes

loop_hack.py

# First, let's create an awaitable object.
# In this case it's a very dumb container of integers.
# Any time a coroutine runs `await Thing(n)` it just resolves to n
# However, we could resolve it to something completely different if we wanted to

class Thing:
    def __init__(self, n):
        self._n = n

    def __await__(self):
        return (yield self)

# Simple runner of the coroutine, which ignores a bunch of
# things like error handling etc.
def thing_interceptor(coro):
    value_to_send = None
    while True:
        try:
            thing = coro.send(value_to_send)
            # At this point, we assume everything we get back
            # is a Thing object. But we could actually accept
            # asyncio coroutines here if we wanted to, and relay
            # them to the event loop. This would make it possible
            # for the coroutine to use anything in asyncio
            # (eg asyncio.sleep)
            value_to_send = thing._n
        except StopIteration as exc:
            return exc.value


# This is just the standard recursive Fibonacci definition
# It serves the purpose of how you can have a deep call stack
# and still make it possible to interact back with a sort of
# "context", which in this case is a very silly thing that just
# resolves Thing(n) to n, but in theory could be something a
# lot more complex
async def f(n):
    if n <= 1:
        value = await Thing(n)
    else:
        value = await f(n-2) + await f(n-1)
    return value


coro = f(10)
print(thing_interceptor(coro))