Sorry for the latency. On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 03:39:24PM -0700, Ian Kelly wrote: > > What I meant was, the error message is specific to futures in the > > 'PENDING' state. Which should be set to 'RUNNING' before any actions > > occur. So it appears the tasks weren't started at all. > > Ah. I don't think asyncio uses a RUNNING state. There's nothing about > it in the docs; tasks are either done or they're not: > https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#task-object > > And inspecting the current task also shows PENDING: > > py> from asyncio import * > py> async def main(): > ... print(current_task()._state) > ... > py> run(main()) > PENDING
Yes, you're right. I was confused and looked at futures, not asyncio.futures. :/ > > Also the cleanup happens instantly, ie before the loop exits (as the > > main loop has an asyncio.sleep timeout. Printing a message also clearly > > shows this happens way before main returns. > > Okay, that wasn't clear from the log you posted. It's not obvious to > me why that would be happening. although it does sound like the tasks > are getting created and then immediately garbage-collected for some > reason. It could be a bug in asyncio, or it could be a bug in the way > the tasks are created, e.g. on a separate event loop that gets dropped > on the floor. Yes, I should have mentioned that earlier, sorry. Hmm, I guess this will need some debugging incorporating the asyncio module. Oh well, let's see if I come around to that. Anyway thanks for the input. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list