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Event loop — Running and stopping the loop

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Run until the future (an instance of Future) has completed.

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Run until the future (an instance of Future) has completed. If the argument is a coroutine object it is implicitly scheduled to run as a asyncio.Task. Return the Future's result or raise its exception. Run the event loop until stop is called. If stop is called before run_forever is called, the loop will poll the I/O selector once with a timeout of zero, run all callbacks scheduled in response to I/O events (and those that were already scheduled), and then exit. If stop is called while run_forever is running, the loop will run the current batch of callbacks and then exit. Note that new callbacks scheduled by callbacks will not run in this case; instead, they will run the next time run_forever or run_until_complete is called. Return True if the event loop is currently running. Return True if the event loop was closed. The loop must not be running when Attribution: Adapted from Python Documentation under PSF-2.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, removed long code blocks, and shortened it for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.
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