bpo-40782: Change asyncio.AbstractEventLoop.run_in_executor to be a method not a coroutine (GH-21852)
asyncio.AbstractEventLoop.run_in_executor should be a method that returns an asyncio Future, not an async method.
This matches the concrete implementations, and the documentation better.
diff --git a/Lib/asyncio/events.py b/Lib/asyncio/events.py
index 70017cb..0dce87b 100644
--- a/Lib/asyncio/events.py
+++ b/Lib/asyncio/events.py
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@
def call_soon_threadsafe(self, callback, *args):
raise NotImplementedError
- async def run_in_executor(self, executor, func, *args):
+ def run_in_executor(self, executor, func, *args):
raise NotImplementedError
def set_default_executor(self, executor):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-08-13-08-07-25.bpo-40782.aGZqmB.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-08-13-08-07-25.bpo-40782.aGZqmB.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d4c7e0e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2020-08-13-08-07-25.bpo-40782.aGZqmB.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Change the method asyncio.AbstractEventLoop.run_in_executor to not be a coroutine.
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