I have an event loop running in a separate thread from the main thread, and I would like to add a background task to this event loop from the main thread using the asyncio.create_task function. I am able to achieve this using the asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe function, but that ends up returning a concurrent.futures._base.Future object as opposed to the asyncio.Task object that the asyncio.create_task function returns. I would really like to have a Task object returned as I'm making use of the "name" attribute of the Task object in my application logic. Is there any way to implement this? Continue reading...
