await doesn't mean 'meanwhile': the bug every JavaScript engineer writes in Python

There's a bug you'll write in your first week of Python async, and you'll write it precisely because you're good at JavaScript.

In JavaScript, this is a concurrency idiom:

const userPromise = fetchUser(id); // starts now

const ordersPromise = fetchOrders(id); // starts now, runs alongside

const user = await userPromise; // both already in flight