The same thing as when no timeout is specified. I presume this means returning None. The alternative would be to call future.result() in all cases -- it would raise InvalidStateError, but that doesn't feel very useful. Perhaps this is actually the correct response? What is the reason you have something else that calls stop()?
I didn't run into this in practice, I just thought of it :-) I guess that some exception handler or some third party lib could do it without you knowing, but I don't have a good example on why someone would want to do it.
Yeah, that would not work, in my example the task is already started, I don't think cancel() will work midway.
Actually, it may. There is code to throw CancelledError into the generator, in _step(). But I don't think it will necessarily break out of all blocking I/O. (Though it really should -- perhaps this is something useful to add tests for.)
Well, it may work for tasks, but since run_until_complete applies to futures in general I'm not sure if that would still work. I added the following review which fixes the problem and adds a test case for it: https://codereview.appspot.com/7301076/ A few days ago I also submitted this one: https://codereview.appspot.com/7312046/ which adds a few more tests for run_until_complete. Regards, -- Saúl Ibarra Corretgé http://saghul.net/blog | http://about.me/saghul