Similarities and Differences between Threads and Coroutine Tasks

• Task is very similar to Thread
• Task drives a coroutine object while Thread invokes a callabel
• Coroutine yield control explicitly to other tasks/event loop (cooperative multitasking while Thread is scheduled by the OS (preemptive multitasking)
• Task gets scheduled automatically after creation while Thread must be started explicitly
• Task can be cancelled (task.cancel, which would generate CancelledError) but thread can’t be terminated from outside except using signals