Message 345389 - Python tracker

Lukasz, please don't rush.
Applied PR makes asyncio more stable, not worse.

I see the only way to make it perfect: get rid of weak refs entirely.
Otherwise there is always a chance to catch GC run and set element deletion on iteration over the set. Sorry, that's how weakrefs work.

There is such possibility: call asyncio._unregister_task() explicitly when the task is done (finished with success or failure or cancelled).
By this, we can replace weakset with a regular set.

The only requirement is that task should call this _unregister_task() method.
No public API change is needed.

At the time of work on 3.7, Yuri and I considered this implementation but rejected it because there was a (very low) chance that somebody may implement own task, register custom task factory and don't call _unregister_task().

I never see a code that implements asyncio task from scratch, people always reuse existing asyncio.Task.

So, maybe the idea is not such bad. It can be implemented easily. I'm volunteered to make a PR with the proposal demonstration in a day or two, depending on my free time.