[New-bugs-announce] [issue40800] asyncio.sleep(0) should "yield" back to the event loop, but it doesn't behave as expected
Davy Durham
report at bugs.python.org
Thu May 28 01:36:59 EDT 2020
New submission from Davy Durham <davydurham at gmail.com>:
I was searching for a way to "yield" from task/coroutinue back to the event loop (not yielding a value in terms of a generator) and not finding anything documented, I found this bug report and PR:
https://github.com/python/asyncio/issues/284
It states that asyncio.sleep(0) should cause the coroutine to send control back to the event loop without wastefully doing other work. That makes sense and a perfectly good way to do that.
And, the code appears to handle a value of <= 0 specifically: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/3.8/Lib/asyncio/tasks.py#L632
However, using sleep(0) to yield back does not cause it to raise a CancelledError if the task has been cancelled as cancel()'s documentation indicates it should. But sleeping for anything >0 does (e.g. 0.001)
The below code snippet will demonstrate the problem:
TIA
----
import asyncio
import time
async def cancel_me():
print('cancel_me(): before sleep')
try:
while True:
print("doing some really intensive cpu stuff")
time.sleep(2)
# now I want to yield control back to the event loop in order to determine if we've been cancelled
await asyncio.sleep(0) # I'm expecting this to throw CancelledError, but it never does.. it DOES throw if the delay > 0 (e.g. 0.001)
except asyncio.CancelledError:
print('cancel_me(): cancelled!')
raise
async def main():
task = asyncio.create_task(cancel_me())
await asyncio.sleep(1)
task.cancel()
try:
await task
except asyncio.CancelledError:
print("main(): cancel_me is cancelled now")
asyncio.run(main())
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components: asyncio
messages: 370164
nosy: Davy Durham, asvetlov, yselivanov
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: asyncio.sleep(0) should "yield" back to the event loop, but it doesn't behave as expected
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.7
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