Re: Using a background thread with asyncio/futures with flask

On 2024-03-22 12:09 PM, Frank Millman via Python-list wrote:

 I am no expert. However, I do have something similar in my app, and it works.
 I do not use 'await future', I use 'asyncio.wait_for(future)'.
 

I tested it and it did not work.
I am not sure, but I think the problem is that you have a mixture of blocking and non-blocking functions.
Here is a version that works. However, it is a bit different, so I don't know if it fits your use case.
I have replaced the threads with background asyncio tasks.
I have replaced instances of queue.Queue with asyncio.Queue.
Frank
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import asyncio
in_queue = asyncio.Queue()
out_queue = asyncio.Queue()
async def worker():
     print("worker started running")
     while True:
         future = await in_queue.get()
         print(f"worker got future: {future}")
         await asyncio.sleep(5)
         print("worker sleeped")
         await out_queue.put(future)
async def finalizer():
     print("finalizer started running")
     while True:
         future = await out_queue.get()
         print(f"finalizer got future: {future}")
         future.set_result("completed")
         print("finalizer set result")
async def main():
     asyncio.create_task(worker())  # start a background task
     asyncio.create_task(finalizer())  # ditto
     future = asyncio.get_event_loop().create_future()
     await in_queue.put(future)
     print(f"main put future: {future}")
     result = await asyncio.wait_for(future, timeout=None)
     print(result)
if __name__ == "__main__":
     # loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
     # loop.run_until_complete(main())
     # this is the preferred way to start an asyncio app
     asyncio.run(main())