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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2021-11-16 11:51:19 (GMT)
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Save a reference for ensure_future and create_task (GH-29163)
Co-authored-by: Joannah Nanjekye <jnanjekye@python.org> (cherry picked from commit c750adbe6990ee8239b27d5f4591283a06bfe862) Co-authored-by: Joannah Nanjekye <33177550+nanjekyejoannah@users.noreply.github.com>
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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 fb86892..f18b0e3 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
@@ -274,6 +274,11 @@ 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