[issue34679] asyncio.add_signal_handler call fails if not on main thread

Brett Slatkin added the comment: Maybe we should just roll back https://bugs.python.org/issue34687 to fix both issues? Otherwise asyncio will be broken on Windows in 3.8. Is general API stability more important than performance? -- ___ Python

[issue34679] asyncio.add_signal_handler call fails if not on main thread

Brett Slatkin added the comment: I believe the scope of this bug may be larger than it originally seemed. Now that ProactorEventLoop is the default for Python 3.8 (https://bugs.python.org/issue34687), I'm seeing this same problem on Windows when you try to call asyncio.new_event_loop()