Developing with asyncio — Detect never-retrieved exceptions
If a Future.set_exception is called but the Future object is never awaited on, the exception would never be propagated to the user code.
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If a Future.set_exception is called but the Future object is never awaited on, the exception would never be propagated to the user code. In this case, asyncio would emit a log message when the Future object is garbage collected.
Example of an unhandled exception
Enable the debug mode to get the traceback where the task was created
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