RuntimeError: This event loop is already running

[araa47]

Hey, I'm trying to run some code to send some emails, however, I am already using the event loop for another task. When I try running the line loop.run_until_complete(smtp.connect())
I get the following error " RuntimeError: This event loop is already running ".

[skillian]

Hey, I answered this question on StackOverflow before!

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39754020/runtime-error-event-loop-is-running

[cole]

As @skillian pointed out, if the loop is already running, don't use loop.run_until_complete. If you're in an async function, just use await; otherwise, I would use loop.create_task.