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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-11-16 03:47:02 -0800 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-11-16 03:47:02 -0800 |
| commit | fd206b680705de3e0408fd29c7943317563e61e1 (patch) | |
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| download | cpython-git-fd206b680705de3e0408fd29c7943317563e61e1.tar.gz | |
[3.9] Save a reference for ensure_future and create_task (GH-29163) (GH-29573)
Co-authored-by: Joannah Nanjekye <jnanjekye@python.org>
(cherry picked from commit c750adbe6990ee8239b27d5f4591283a06bfe862)
Co-authored-by: Joannah Nanjekye <33177550+nanjekyejoannah@users.noreply.github.com>
Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:asvetlov
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/asyncio-future.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst | 5 |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-future.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-future.rst index 939d4c1a84..63c369263f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/asyncio-future.rst +++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-future.rst @@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ Future Functions See also the :func:`create_task` function which is the preferred way for creating new Tasks. + Save a reference to the result of this function, to avoid + a task disappearing mid execution. + .. versionchanged:: 3.5.1 The function accepts any :term:`awaitable` object. diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst index ca6e525e93..e8bee20bc7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst +++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst @@ -274,6 +274,11 @@ Creating Tasks task = asyncio.ensure_future(coro()) ... + .. important:: + + Save a reference to the result of this function, to avoid + a task disappearing mid execution. + .. versionadded:: 3.7 .. versionchanged:: 3.8 |