https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/28625d4f956f8d30671aba1daaac9735932983db commit: 28625d4f956f8d30671aba1daaac9735932983db branch: main author: Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> committer: kumaraditya303 <[email protected]> date: 2025-05-20T14:11:22+05:30 summary:
gh-128307: Update what's new in 3.13 and 3.14 with create_task changes of asyncio (#134304) Co-authored-by: Adam Turner <[email protected]> files: M Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst M Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst index 023c279979d842..580a3d8154dee1 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst @@ -730,6 +730,22 @@ asyncio never awaited). (Contributed by Arthur Tacca and Jason Zhang in :gh:`115957`.) +* The function and methods named ``create_task`` have received a new + ``**kwargs`` argument that is passed through to the task constructor. + This change was accidentally added in 3.13.3, + and broke the API contract for custom task factories. + Several third-party task factories implemented workarounds for this. + In 3.13.4 and later releases the old factory contract is honored + once again (until 3.14). + To keep the workarounds working, the extra ``**kwargs`` argument still + allows passing additional keyword arguments to :class:`~asyncio.Task` + and to custom task factories. + + This affects the following function and methods: + :meth:`asyncio.create_task`, + :meth:`asyncio.loop.create_task`, + :meth:`asyncio.TaskGroup.create_task`. + (Contributed by Thomas Grainger in :gh:`128307`.) base64 ------ diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst index 8f39b99e38e3a5..b192615e173f11 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst @@ -1064,6 +1064,24 @@ ast (Contributed by Semyon Moroz in :gh:`133367`.) +asyncio +------- + +* The function and methods named :func:`!create_task` now take an arbitrary + list of keyword arguments. All keyword arguments are passed to the + :class:`~asyncio.Task` constructor or the custom task factory. + (See :meth:`~asyncio.loop.set_task_factory` for details.) + The ``name`` and ``context`` keyword arguments are no longer special; + the name should now be set using the ``name`` keyword argument of the factory, + and ``context`` may be ``None``. + + This affects the following function and methods: + :meth:`asyncio.create_task`, + :meth:`asyncio.loop.create_task`, + :meth:`asyncio.TaskGroup.create_task`. + (Contributed by Thomas Grainger in :gh:`128307`.) + + bdb --- _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-checkins.python.org/ Member address: [email protected]
