Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 6:27 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >> Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: >> >>> asyncio.spin_off(parallel()) # ??? >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> What code should go on the "???" line to accomplish this? >> >> asyncio.ensure_future(parallel()) > > Hmm. I tried that but it didn't work in the full program (it hung the > calling coroutine until completion). But it does work in the toy > example I posted here. Weird. Must be something else that's wrong, > then. I'll keep poking around, thanks.
What version of Python are you running? Changed in version 3.5.1: The function accepts any awaitable object. <URL: https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#asyncio.ensu re_future> Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list