[New-bugs-announce] [issue36428] Support AutoAwait?

[Guido van Rossum]

New submission from Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>:

I just found out about IPython's autoawait feature:
https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/interactive/autoawait.html

I wonder if we should at least help them do this right in Python 3.8 by having a flag to compile() that allows `await` in the toplevel syntax? It looks like a relatively small change would suffice to make compiler_visit_expr1() in Python/compile.c accept (and generate correct code for) Await_kind outside async functions, if some flag is set.

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components: Interpreter Core, asyncio
messages: 338840
nosy: asvetlov, gvanrossum, yselivanov
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Support AutoAwait?
versions: Python 3.8

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