Comment by three14

The thing that burned me with asyncio primitives is that calling an async function doesn't even schedule it (by default). The pattern for fire-and-forget is impossible to guess when coming from any other language - although it's called out in the docs. You must also call create_task AND you must maintain a collection of tasks because otherwise the task might not run, because it can be garbage collected before running, AND you must clean up completed tasks from your collection.