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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst index bab1e06..6e0c8b8 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst @@ -249,6 +249,13 @@ Changes in the Python API * ``PyGC_Head`` struct is changed completely. All code touched the struct member should be rewritten. (See :issue:`33597`) +* Asyncio tasks can now be named, either by passing the ``name`` keyword + argument to :func:`asyncio.create_task` or + the :meth:`~asyncio.AbstractEventLoop.create_task` event loop method, or by + calling the :meth:`~asyncio.Task.set_name` method on the task object. The + task name is visible in the ``repr()`` output of :class:`asyncio.Task` and + can also be retrieved using the :meth:`~asyncio.Task.get_name` method. + CPython bytecode changes ------------------------ |