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| author | Victor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com> | 2018-09-25 15:27:08 (GMT) |
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| committer | Yury Selivanov <yury@magic.io> | 2018-09-25 15:27:08 (GMT) |
| commit | 6ea29c5e90dde6c240bd8e0815614b52ac307ea1 (patch) | |
| tree | b13f44020dc742f6d06d8adb71961b734b06c2ea /Doc/library/asyncio-platforms.rst | |
| parent | c8c0249c9e8f61ab7670119a5a5278354df27bbb (diff) | |
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bpo-34687: Make asynico use ProactorEventLoop by default (GH-9538)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-platforms.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-platforms.rst index f8ecb58..81d840e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/asyncio-platforms.rst +++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-platforms.rst @@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ All Platforms Windows ======= +.. versionchanged:: 3.8 + + On Windows, :class:`ProactorEventLoop` is now the default event loop. + All event loops on Windows do not support the following methods: * :meth:`loop.create_unix_connection` and @@ -67,16 +71,8 @@ Windows configuration. Subprocess Support on Windows ----------------------------- -:class:`SelectorEventLoop` on Windows does not support subproceses. -On Windows, :class:`ProactorEventLoop` should be used instead:: - - import asyncio - - asyncio.set_event_loop_policy( - asyncio.WindowsProactorEventLoopPolicy()) - - asyncio.run(your_code()) - +On Windows, the default event loop :class:`ProactorEventLoop` supports +subprocesses, whereas :class:`SelectorEventLoop` does not. The :meth:`policy.set_child_watcher() <AbstractEventLoopPolicy.set_child_watcher>` function is also |