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Improve asyncio.loop.call_soon() documentation (GH-20883)
* Add a glossary entry for the term "callback" * Link to it in loop.call_soon() and in the "Concurrency and Multithreading" section Co-authored-by: Kyle Stanley <aeros167@gmail.com>
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@ -189,6 +189,10 @@ Glossary
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A list of bytecode instructions can be found in the documentation for
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:ref:`the dis module <bytecodes>`.
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callback
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A subroutine function which is passed as an argument to be executed at
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some point in the future.
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class
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A template for creating user-defined objects. Class definitions
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normally contain method definitions which operate on instances of the
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@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ event loop, no other Tasks can run in the same thread. When a Task
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executes an ``await`` expression, the running Task gets suspended, and
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the event loop executes the next Task.
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To schedule a callback from a different OS thread, the
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To schedule a :term:`callback` from another OS thread, the
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:meth:`loop.call_soon_threadsafe` method should be used. Example::
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loop.call_soon_threadsafe(callback, *args)
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@ -191,8 +191,8 @@ Scheduling callbacks
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.. method:: loop.call_soon(callback, *args, context=None)
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Schedule a *callback* to be called with *args* arguments at
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the next iteration of the event loop.
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Schedule the *callback* :term:`callback` to be called with
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*args* arguments at the next iteration of the event loop.
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Callbacks are called in the order in which they are registered.
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Each callback will be called exactly once.
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