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| author | Joannah Nanjekye <33177550+nanjekyejoannah@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-11-15 22:30:28 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-11-15 22:30:28 (GMT) |
| commit | c750adbe6990ee8239b27d5f4591283a06bfe862 (patch) | |
| tree | 34e1a1820a876230ce4d1f939defc79171cfd259 | |
| parent | 6c5a312fb6d92e879bf4c570b94e18bb9ffe5970 (diff) | |
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Save a reference for ensure_future and create_task (GH-29163)
Co-authored-by: Joannah Nanjekye <jnanjekye@python.org>
| -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 ef496a2..3496387 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 07354e0..36e13f9 100644 --- a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst +++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst @@ -271,6 +271,11 @@ 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 |