[Python] Requests in Asyncio - Keyword Arguments

I'm using asyncio with the requests module to make an asynchronous HTTP request.

I can make a GET request like this:

@asyncio.coroutine
def do_checks():
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
req = loop.run_in_executor(None, requests.get, 'https://api.github.com/user')
resp = yield from req
print(resp.status_code)
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(do_checks())


However, I need to do support Basic HTTP Auth (described here) in the request.

According to the documentation, url and auth are both named parameters for requests.get().

But, if I run this (note the addition of url='' and auth = ''):

@asyncio.coroutine
def do_checks():
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
req = loop.run_in_executor(None, requests.get, url='https://api.github.com/user', auth=HTTPBasicAuth('user', 'pass'))
resp = yield from req
print(resp.status_code)
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(do_checks())


I get this error:

TypeError: run_in_executor() got an unexpected keyword argument 'url'


In the prototype for asyncio.run_in_executor(), additional arguments are supported:

BaseEventLoop.run_in_executor(executor, callback, *args)


requests.get() clearly supports named parameters (get, auth, etc.). What's wrong?

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