Comment Comment by uniqueuid async tasks are cool, but the usual PSA applies here:Be careful to hold your references, because async tasks without active references will be garbage collected. I've been bitten by that in the past.Long discussion here: https://bugs.python.org/issue21163Docs: https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#asyncio...."ImportantSave a reference to the result of this function, to avoid a task disappearing mid-execution. The event loop only keeps weak references to tasks. A task that isn’t referenced elsewhere may get garbage collected at any time, even before it’s done." parent uniqueuid 3 years ago
Be careful to hold your references, because async tasks without active references will be garbage collected. I've been bitten by that in the past.
Long discussion here: https://bugs.python.org/issue21163
Docs: https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#asyncio....
"Important
Save a reference to the result of this function, to avoid a task disappearing mid-execution. The event loop only keeps weak references to tasks. A task that isn’t referenced elsewhere may get garbage collected at any time, even before it’s done."