[issue21365] asyncio.Task reference misses the most important fact about it, related info spread around intros and example commentary instead

STINNER Victor added the comment: Hi, I pushed my change to add a new BaseEventLoop.create_task() method. For that, I also updated the documentation: http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/66f06fbf8a2f I rewrote the documentation of the Task method, and more generally all places describing how to

[issue21365] asyncio.Task reference misses the most important fact about it, related info spread around intros and example commentary instead

STINNER Victor added the comment: Victor, since you wrote much of the asyncio doc, any comment on this request? Please write a patch. The change is ok. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21365

[issue21365] asyncio.Task reference misses the most important fact about it, related info spread around intros and example commentary instead

Changes by Giampaolo Rodola' g.rod...@gmail.com: -- components: +Asyncio ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21365 ___ ___

[issue21365] asyncio.Task reference misses the most important fact about it, related info spread around intros and example commentary instead

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Victor, since you wrote much of the asyncio doc, any comment on this request? -- nosy: +terry.reedy ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21365 ___

[issue21365] asyncio.Task reference misses the most important fact about it, related info spread around intros and example commentary instead

New submission from Paul Sokolovsky: It caused me a big surprise that asyncio.Task object automatically schedules itself in the main loop for execution upon creation (i.e. in constructor). Nowhere in the main reference part of section 18.5.2.4. Task

[issue21365] asyncio.Task reference misses the most important fact about it, related info spread around intros and example commentary instead

Paul Sokolovsky added the comment: Based on discussion https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/python-tulip/zfMQIUcIR-0 . That discussion actually questions the grounds of such Task behavior, and points it as a violation of Explicit is better than implicit principle, and as inconsistent

[issue21365] asyncio.Task reference misses the most important fact about it, related info spread around intros and example commentary instead

Changes by Berker Peksag berker.pek...@gmail.com: -- nosy: +giampaolo.rodola, gvanrossum, haypo, pitrou, yselivanov ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue21365 ___