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authorVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2015-02-04 15:14:33 (GMT)
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asyncio doc: explain how to display ResourceWarning in the debug mode section
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@@ -14,16 +14,22 @@ This page lists common traps and explains how to avoid them.
Debug mode of asyncio
---------------------
-To enable the debug mode globally, set the environment variable
-:envvar:`PYTHONASYNCIODEBUG` to ``1``. To see debug traces, set the log level
-of the :ref:`asyncio logger <asyncio-logger>` to :py:data:`logging.DEBUG`. The
-simplest configuration is::
+The implementation of :mod:`asyncio` module has been written for performances.
+To development with asyncio, it's required to enable the debug checks to ease
+the development of asynchronous code.
- import logging
- # ...
- logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
+Setup an application to enable all debug checks:
-Examples of effects of the debug mode:
+* Enable the asyncio debug mode globally by setting the environment variable
+ :envvar:`PYTHONASYNCIODEBUG` to ``1``
+* Set the log level of the :ref:`asyncio logger <asyncio-logger>` to
+ :py:data:`logging.DEBUG`. For example, call
+ ``logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)`` at startup.
+* Configure the :mod:`warnings` module to display :exc:`ResourceWarning`
+ warnings. For example, use the ``-Wdefault`` command line option of Python to
+ display them.
+
+Examples debug checks:
* Log :ref:`coroutines defined but never "yielded from"
<asyncio-coroutine-not-scheduled>`
@@ -33,6 +39,8 @@ Examples of effects of the debug mode:
* Log callbacks taking more than 100 ms to be executed. The
:attr:`BaseEventLoop.slow_callback_duration` attribute is the minimum
duration in seconds of "slow" callbacks.
+* :exc:`ResourceWarning` warnings are emitted when transports and event loops
+ are :ref:`not closed explicitly <asyncio-close-transports>`.
.. seealso::
@@ -372,14 +380,15 @@ traceback where the task was created. Example of log in debug mode::
:ref:`Detect coroutine objects never scheduled <asyncio-coroutine-not-scheduled>`.
+.. _asyncio-close-transports:
-Close transports
-----------------
+Close transports and event loops
+--------------------------------
When a transport is no more needed, call its ``close()`` method to release
-resources.
+resources. Event loops must also be closed explicitly.
-If a transport (or an event loop) is not closed explicitly, a
-:exc:`ResourceWarning` warning will be emitted in its destructor. The
-:exc:`ResourceWarning` warnings are hidden by default: use the ``-Wd`` command
-line option of Python to show them.
+If a transport or an event loop is not closed explicitly, a
+:exc:`ResourceWarning` warning will be emitted in its destructor. By default,
+:exc:`ResourceWarning` warnings are ignored. The :ref:`Debug mode of asyncio
+<asyncio-debug-mode>` section explains how to display them.