New submission from Javier Domingo: The current architecture of asyncio makes it really hard to combine both async and sync code.
When porting a Thread based application to asyncio, the first step is usually to start merging threads to the main loop, by using `run_coroutine_threadsafe`. This works well and allows to use a single ioloop from different threads. There is another step, that usually involves the patching of libraries to work in an async way. One will typically patch the IO calls to be asyncio, and using `run_until_complete` proves useful in these situations. However, at the moment it's not possible to `run_until_complete` from an ioloop. The possibility to be able to patch sync libraries to run in asyncio is something that would help a lot the migration. This functionality would basically provide a way to continue running the ioloop until the future is resolved. Sync code -> async code -> Sync code -> Async code If you know how to have this without spawning an executor, that would be good too, in such case I would rather ask for documentation on how to do it =) ---------- components: asyncio messages: 287784 nosy: gvanrossum, txomon, yselivanov priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Provide run_until_complete inside loop type: enhancement versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue29558> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
