bpo-40405: Fix asyncio.as_completed docs (GH-19753)
* Fix as_completed docs to correctly state the function return value.
* Also, improves the general wording of the as_completed documentation.
Co-Authored-By: Rémi Lapeyre <remi.lapeyre@henki.fr>
Co-Authored-By: Kyle Stanley <aeros167@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Yury Selivanov <yury@edgedb.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
index dd94c14..847363b 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
@@ -585,9 +585,9 @@
.. function:: as_completed(aws, \*, loop=None, timeout=None)
Run :ref:`awaitable objects <asyncio-awaitables>` in the *aws*
- set concurrently. Return an iterator of :class:`Future` objects.
- Each Future object returned represents the earliest result
- from the set of the remaining awaitables.
+ set concurrently. Return an iterator of coroutines.
+ Each coroutine returned can be awaited to get the earliest next
+ result from the set of the remaining awaitables.
Raises :exc:`asyncio.TimeoutError` if the timeout occurs before
all Futures are done.
@@ -597,8 +597,8 @@
Example::
- for f in as_completed(aws):
- earliest_result = await f
+ for coro in as_completed(aws):
+ earliest_result = await coro
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