diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst index f0fe91b363d95e..2e17d0dc70c7a5 100644 --- a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst +++ b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst @@ -394,8 +394,8 @@ Example:: The ``async with`` statement will wait for all tasks in the group to finish. While waiting, new tasks may still be added to the group (for example, by passing ``tg`` into one of the coroutines -and calling ``tg.create_task()`` in that coroutine). There is also opportunity -to short-circuit the entire task group with ``tg.cancel()``, based on some condition. +and calling ``tg.create_task()`` in that coroutine). There is also opportunity to +request termination of the entire task group with ``tg.cancel()``, based on some condition. Once the last task has finished and the ``async with`` block is exited, no new tasks may be added to the group. diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.15.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.15.rst index 405d388af487e8..4594a3d3b515ff 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.15.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.15.rst @@ -718,6 +718,17 @@ ast (Contributed by Stan Ulbrych in :gh:`148981`.) +asyncio +------- + +* Added :meth:`TaskGroup.cancel ` to allow early + termination of a task group, for instance, when the goal of the tasks has + been achieved or their services are no longer needed. + Previously this would involve unintuitive boilerplate such as an extra task + raising a custom exception which is then suppressed as it exits the task group. + (Contributed by John Belmonte in :gh:`127214`.) + + base64 ------ diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-11-24-07-18-40.gh-issue-108951.jyKygP.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-11-24-07-18-40.gh-issue-108951.jyKygP.rst index 1696a2dd1728ed..0e0280c9b6b0e7 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-11-24-07-18-40.gh-issue-108951.jyKygP.rst +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2024-11-24-07-18-40.gh-issue-108951.jyKygP.rst @@ -1 +1,2 @@ -Add :meth:`~asyncio.TaskGroup.cancel` which cancels unfinished tasks and exits the group without error. +:mod:`asyncio`: Add :meth:`TaskGroup.cancel ` which cancels +unfinished tasks and exits the group without raising :exc:`asyncio.CancelledError`.