bpo-37658: Fix asyncio.wait_for() to respect waited task status (#21894)

Currently, if `asyncio.wait_for()` itself is cancelled it will always
raise `CancelledError` regardless if the underlying task is still
running.  This is similar to a race with the timeout, which is handled
already.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/asyncio/tasks.py b/Lib/asyncio/tasks.py
index 7ecec96..8b05434 100644
--- a/Lib/asyncio/tasks.py
+++ b/Lib/asyncio/tasks.py
@@ -465,9 +465,12 @@ async def wait_for(fut, timeout, *, loop=None):
         try:
             await waiter
         except exceptions.CancelledError:
-            fut.remove_done_callback(cb)
-            fut.cancel()
-            raise
+            if fut.done():
+                return fut.result()
+            else:
+                fut.remove_done_callback(cb)
+                fut.cancel()
+                raise
 
         if fut.done():
             return fut.result()