New submission from Nic Watson <[email protected]>:
Goal: to distinguish inside a CancelledError exception handler whether the
current running task is being cancelled, or another task that the current task
is pending on was cancelled.
Example:
import asyncio
async def task2func():
await asyncio.sleep(2)
async def task1func(task2):
try:
await task2
except asyncio.CancelledError:
print("I don't know if I got cancelled")
async def main():
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
task2 = loop.create_task(task2func())
task1 = loop.create_task(task1func(task2))
await asyncio.sleep(0.5)
print('Cancelling first task')
task1.cancel()
await task1
await asyncio.sleep(0.5)
task2 = loop.create_task(task2func())
task1 = loop.create_task(task1func(task2))
await asyncio.sleep(0.5)
print('Cancelling second task')
task2.cancel()
await task1
asyncio.run(main())
If I have a task1 waiting on a task2, there's no public method (that I can
tell) available in the task1func exception handler to distinguish between
whether task1 or task2 were cancelled.
There is an internal field task_must_cancel in the C task struct that could be
used to interrogate one's own current task to see if it is being cancelled. It
is not available from Python (without ctypes hacking). The Python
implementation's equivalent is called _must_cancel. (I'm not sure it is a good
idea to export this from an API design perspective, but it does mean a
mechanism exists.)
A workaround is that one can explicitly add attributes to the Python task
object to communicate that a task is *starting to* be cancelled. This field
would have the same purpose as the task_must_cancel field.
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components: asyncio
messages: 335108
nosy: asvetlov, jnwatson, yselivanov
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Cannot distinguish between subtask cancellation and running task
cancellation
versions: Python 3.7
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