It wasn't documented in Python 3.6 but the event loop keeps track of Tasks using a weakref.WeakSet. Theoretically this can cause tasks to mysteriously disappear during garbage collection.
So, special measures need to be taken to keep a regular reference to the task around while a request is being serviced.
It wasn't documented in Python 3.6 but the event loop keeps track of Tasks using a
weakref.WeakSet. Theoretically this can cause tasks to mysteriously disappear during garbage collection.So, special measures need to be taken to keep a regular reference to the task around while a request is being serviced.