Quick Answer
asyncio.Task wraps a coroutine and schedules it on the event loop. task = asyncio.create_task(coro()) runs immediately without awaiting. asyncio.Future is a lower-level promise - set result with future.set_result(). concurrent.futures.Future is the thread/process pool future. await task waits for task completion. task.cancel() cancels the task. asyncio.gather returns results of multiple tasks.
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Tasks schedule coroutines on the event loop. Futures represent results not yet available. Useful for coordinating parallel async operations.
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