Python language
asyncio event loop
The single-threaded scheduler running coroutines, resuming each when the thing it awaited is ready.
Why interviewers ask about it
Concurrency, not parallelism - one thread, one core. The killer detail: one blocking call inside a coroutine stalls every other task on the loop.
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