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authorAlex Grönholm <alex.gronholm@nextday.fi>2018-08-08 21:06:47 (GMT)
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bpo-34270: Make it possible to name asyncio tasks (GH-8547)
Co-authored-by: Antti Haapala <antti.haapala@anttipatterns.com>
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@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ Futures
Tasks
-----
-.. method:: AbstractEventLoop.create_task(coro)
+.. method:: AbstractEventLoop.create_task(coro, \*, name=None)
Schedule the execution of a :ref:`coroutine object <coroutine>`: wrap it in
a future. Return a :class:`Task` object.
@@ -255,8 +255,14 @@ Tasks
interoperability. In this case, the result type is a subclass of
:class:`Task`.
+ If the *name* argument is provided and not ``None``, it is set as the name
+ of the task using :meth:`Task.set_name`.
+
.. versionadded:: 3.4.2
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.8
+ Added the ``name`` parameter.
+
.. method:: AbstractEventLoop.set_task_factory(factory)
Set a task factory that will be used by