bpo-32309: Implement asyncio.to_thread() (GH-20143)

Implements `asyncio.to_thread`, a coroutine for asynchronously running IO-bound functions in a separate thread without blocking the event loop. See the discussion starting from [here](https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/18410#issuecomment-628930973) in GH-18410 for context.

Automerge-Triggered-By: @aeros

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/asyncio/__init__.py b/Lib/asyncio/__init__.py
index 28c2e2c429..eb84bfb189 100644
--- a/Lib/asyncio/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/asyncio/__init__.py
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ from .queues import *
 from .streams import *
 from .subprocess import *
 from .tasks import *
+from .threads import *
 from .transports import *
 
 # Exposed for _asynciomodule.c to implement now deprecated
@@ -35,6 +36,7 @@ __all__ = (base_events.__all__ +
            streams.__all__ +
            subprocess.__all__ +
            tasks.__all__ +
+           threads.__all__ +
            transports.__all__)
 
 if sys.platform == 'win32':  # pragma: no cover