Fix asyncio.get_event_loop() documentation (GH-18051)
Mention that the function implicitly creates new event loop only if called from the main thread.
(cherry picked from commit 2c49becc69c05934996a00b902e4a4f089b91954)
Co-authored-by: Andrew Svetlov <andrew.svetlov@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
index 7fed2c2..24f621e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-eventloop.rst
@@ -38,8 +38,10 @@
.. function:: get_event_loop()
- Get the current event loop. If there is no current event loop set
- in the current OS thread and :func:`set_event_loop` has not yet
+ Get the current event loop.
+
+ If there is no current event loop set in the current OS thread,
+ the OS thread is main, and :func:`set_event_loop` has not yet
been called, asyncio will create a new event loop and set it as the
current one.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-01-18-15-37-56.bpo-39381.wTWe8d.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-01-18-15-37-56.bpo-39381.wTWe8d.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..37b66ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2020-01-18-15-37-56.bpo-39381.wTWe8d.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Mention in docs that :func:`asyncio.get_event_loop` implicitly creates new
+event loop only if called from the main thread.