From d82a769a1ded6dfa702800c83a68d051299b01fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Miss Islington (bot)"
<31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2022 17:36:04 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] gh-92223: Remove pre-Python 3.7 alternative in asyncio docs
(GH-92224)
(cherry picked from commit d1b2e989be2bc5128d6602e4f370d0ee6f5ac476)
Co-authored-by: Sebastian Rittau <srittau@rittau.biz>
---
Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst | 17 +----------------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
index 38b12e44b6d..7c12e2eda1c 100644
--- a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Coroutines
:term:`Coroutines <coroutine>` declared with the async/await syntax is the
preferred way of writing asyncio applications. For example, the following
-snippet of code (requires Python 3.7+) prints "hello", waits 1 second,
+snippet of code prints "hello", waits 1 second,
and then prints "world"::
>>> import asyncio
@@ -259,21 +259,6 @@ Creating Tasks
:exc:`RuntimeError` is raised if there is no running loop in
current thread.
- This function has been **added in Python 3.7**. Prior to
- Python 3.7, the low-level :func:`asyncio.ensure_future` function
- can be used instead::
-
- async def coro():
- ...
-
- # In Python 3.7+
- task = asyncio.create_task(coro())
- ...
-
- # This works in all Python versions but is less readable
- task = asyncio.ensure_future(coro())
- ...
-
.. important::
Save a reference to the result of this function, to avoid
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