New submission from Steven Silvester <steven.silves...@gmail.com>:
When writing an `async` function, we often want to `await` a method call that
may or may not be `async`. For instance, it may be synchronous in the base
class, but asynchronous in the subclass on the instance we have been given. It
would be nice for `await foo` to be a no-op if `foo` does not have an
`__await__` method. For instance, the following works in EMCAScript 2017:
`async function foo () { let bar = await 1; console.log(bar); }`. As a
workaround, we have been using `await force_async(foo.bar)`, where
`force_async` is the following:
```python
async def force_async(obj):
"""Force an object to be asynchronous"""
if hasattr(obj, '__await__'):
return await obj
async def inner():
return obj
return await inner()
```
This functionality is roughly equivalent to `gen.maybe_future` for coroutines,
that is now deprecated in Tornado. cf
http://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/gen.html#tornado.gen.maybe_future
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components: asyncio
messages: 323410
nosy: Steven Silvester, asvetlov, yselivanov
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Relax Restrictions on await?
versions: Python 3.8
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