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-rw-r--r--Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst17
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diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
index c104ac5..8e3d49d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Coroutines
:term:`Coroutines <coroutine>` declared with the async/await syntax is the
preferred way of writing asyncio applications. For example, the following
-snippet of code (requires Python 3.7+) prints "hello", waits 1 second,
+snippet of code prints "hello", waits 1 second,
and then prints "world"::
>>> import asyncio
@@ -223,21 +223,6 @@ Creating Tasks
:exc:`RuntimeError` is raised if there is no running loop in
current thread.
- This function has been **added in Python 3.7**. Prior to
- Python 3.7, the low-level :func:`asyncio.ensure_future` function
- can be used instead::
-
- async def coro():
- ...
-
- # In Python 3.7+
- task = asyncio.create_task(coro())
- ...
-
- # This works in all Python versions but is less readable
- task = asyncio.ensure_future(coro())
- ...
-
.. important::
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