Coroutines and tasks — Waiting primitives
Run ~asyncio.Future and ~asyncio.Task instances in the fs iterable concurrently and block until the condition specified by return_when.
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Run ~asyncio.Future and ~asyncio.Task instances in the fs iterable concurrently and block until the condition specified by return_when.
The fs iterable must not be empty.
Returns two sets of Tasks/Futures: (done, pending).
timeout (a float or int), if specified, can be used to control the maximum number of seconds to wait before returning.
Note that this function does not raise TimeoutError. Futures or Tasks that aren't done when the timeout occurs are simply returned in the second set.
return_when indicates when this function should return. It must be one of the following constants
Unlike ~asyncio.wait_for, wait() does not cancel the futures when a timeout occurs.
If wait() is cancelled, the futures in fs are not cancelled and continue to run.
Run awaitable objects in the fs iterable concurrently. The returned object can be iterated to obtain the results of the awaitables as they finish.
The object returned by as_completed() can be iterated as an asynchronous iterator or a plain iterator. When asynchronous iteration is used, the originally-supplied awaitables are yielded if they are tasks or futures. This makes it easy to correlate previously-scheduled tasks with their results. Example
During asynchronous iteration, implicitly-created tasks will be yielded for supplied awaitables that aren't tasks or futures.
When used as a plain iterator, each iteration yields a new coroutine that returns the result or raises the exception of the next completed awaitable. This pattern is compatible with Python versions older than 3.13
A TimeoutError is raised if the timeout occurs before all awaitables are done. This is raised by the async for loop during asynchronous iteration or by the coroutines yielded during plain iteration.
as_completed() does not cancel the tasks running the supplied awaitables: if a timeout occurs or the iteration is cancelled, the remaining tasks continue to run.
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