[New-bugs-announce] [issue27770] remove run_until_complete

[Decorater]

New submission from Decorater:

I use a library that uses run_until_complete that is used for HTTP connections. However it does not work well when you want to reconnect anything that makes it start via recursion. So, I am suggesting the removal of run_until_complete and then tell everyone that uses it to replace their code that had it with run_forever.
( and to have their start function to create a event loop so that way if the loop is closed recursing to restart it after closed would make it not throw a RuntimeError)

run_forever seems to be almost exactly alike run_until_complete except it can run forever.

Pros with removing run_until_complete:
+ A lot easier to handle.
+ No pain from run_until_complete.
+ Cleanup some *code* in asyncio.
+ Helps with heavy http load for reconnecting websockets if they use run_forever instead.

Cons:
- Existing code from libs or anyone that uses run_until_complete will break.
- run_forever can still throw a RuntimeError if you try to use run_forever after closing a event loop.
- Event Loop would have to be recreated or reopened after being closed.

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components: asyncio
messages: 272809
nosy: Decorater, gvanrossum, haypo, yselivanov
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: remove run_until_complete
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.6

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