"Frank Millman" <fr...@chagford.com>: > When shutting the main program down, I want to stop the task, but I > cannot figure out how to stop it cleanly - i.e. wait until it has > finished the current task and possibly performed some cleanup, before > continuing.
Here (and really, only here) is where asyncio shows its superiority over threads: you can multiplex. You should await asyncio.wait(..., return_when=asyncio.FIRST_COMPLETED) to deal with multiple alternative stimuli. In fact, since there is always a minimum of two alternative stimuli to await, you should only ever await asyncio.wait(). And, while viable, that's what makes every asyncio program ugly as hell. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
