How does a non-blocking event loop work?

Question

Twisted has a non-blocking event loop.

I understand what the loop of a blocking event does (like, from the Wikipedia page), but I can’t understand how a non-blocking one does it.

Answer 1

while (true)
    wait_for_events
    handle_events

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