Message 333009 - Python tracker

Message333009

Author	vstinner
Recipients	asvetlov, stefan, vstinner, yselivanov
Date	2019-01-04.22:27:15
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> Am I missing something ? Given the complexity of this, I would expect this to be better documented in the sections explaining how `asyncio.subprocess` and `threading` interact. The current documentation says: "To handle signals and to execute subprocesses, the event loop must be run in the main thread." https://docs.python.org/dev/library/asyncio-dev.html#concurrency-and-multithreading But I agree that the doc can be enhanced :-) Do you have suggestions?

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> Am I missing something ? Given the complexity of this, I would expect this to be better documented in the sections explaining how `asyncio.subprocess` and `threading` interact.

The current documentation says:

"To handle signals and to execute subprocesses, the event loop must be run in the main thread."

https://docs.python.org/dev/library/asyncio-dev.html#concurrency-and-multithreading

But I agree that the doc can be enhanced :-) Do you have suggestions?

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