[New-bugs-announce] [issue31539] asyncio.sleep may sleep less time then it should

[Mikhail]

New submission from Mikhail:

Originally faced here:
https://stackoverflow.com/q/46306660/1113207

Simple code to reproduce:

    import asyncio 
    import time


    async def main():
        while True:
            asyncio.ensure_future(asyncio.sleep(1))

            t0 = time.time()
            await asyncio.sleep(0.1)
            t1 = time.time()

            print(t1 - t0)
            if t1 - t0 < 0.1:
                print('bug ^')
                break


    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
    loop.run_until_complete(main())

I thought that it may be related to event loop's internal clock, but changing time.time() with asyncio.get_event_loop().time() doesn't help.

Tested on Windows 10 x64, Python 3.6.2.

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components: asyncio
messages: 302671
nosy: germn, yselivanov
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: asyncio.sleep may sleep less time then it should
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6

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