commit e2991308c9b49547d9762157ac913dda94b5eb32
author Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Tue May 19 03:03:25 2020 -0700
committer GitHub <noreply@github.com> Tue May 19 03:03:25 2020 -0700
tree ad5481c656f898ca794fe62ab882d95c2388b65f
parent 3d062829deadcb8355e97090aba47138eb9bc649

bpo-32309: Implement asyncio.to_thread() (GH-20143)


Implements `asyncio.to_thread`, a coroutine for asynchronously running IO-bound functions in a separate thread without blocking the event loop. See the discussion starting from [here](https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/18410GH-issuecomment-628930973) in GH-18410 for context.

Automerge-Triggered-By: @aeros
(cherry picked from commit cc2bbc2227c3f5ed9d8f6b3bd052e6f9e68279d2)

Co-authored-by: Kyle Stanley <aeros167@gmail.com>

Doc/library/asyncio-api-index.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-api-index.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-api-index.rst
index d5b5659..047e5bb 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-api-index.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-api-index.rst
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@
     * - :class:`Task`
       - Task object.
 
+    * - :func:`to_thread`
+      - Asychronously run a function in a separate OS thread.
+
     * - :func:`run_coroutine_threadsafe`
       - Schedule a coroutine from another OS thread.