I'm not sure what you mean about Python. In Python, if you run an async function without an await, you will simply get a coroutine object that is ready to be executed by... someone (it's essentially a generator under the hood).

In fact, unlike JavaScript, you can't even call await from a synchronous module context. You have to either schedule that couroutine object onto an existing async event loop, or create a new event loop and run it your self.