How to send request to websockets server? And what is better to use to handle long running requests on the server?

Question

Python

1. I wrote a client, but I don't understand how to send a message to the server for a test? ...

client.

import asyncio
import logging
import websockets
from websockets import WebSocketServerProtocol
import os

def log_message(message: str) -> None:
    logging.info(f"Message: {message}")

async def consumer_handler(ws: WebSocketServerProtocol) -> None:
    async for message in ws:
        log_message(message)



async def consume(host: str, port: int) -> None:
    ws_url = f"ws://{host}:{port}"
    async with websockets.connect(ws_url) as ws:
        await consumer_handler(ws)
        ws.send("test test")
        print(await ws.recv())

if __name__ == '__main__':
    HOST = "server"
    PORT = 8001
    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
    loop.run_until_complete(consume(host=HOST, port=PORT))
    loop.run_forever()

2. What is better to use for long processing on the server side?
response = await loop.run_in_executor(pool, send_to_api, message)

Or is it okay to just write
response = await send_to_api(message) ?

(3.) I tried to deal with web sockets according to this article: https://nuancesprog.ru/p/6466/
Maybe someone understands where to run produce? I didn't understand its role in the code at all...