Make not yielding from or awaiting a coroutine a SyntaxError

[AraHaan]

BPO	27527
Nosy	@pfmoore, @tjguk, @bitdancer, @zware, @zooba, @AraHaan

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labels = ['type-feature', 'OS-windows']
title = 'Make not yielding from or awaiting a coroutine a SyntaxError'
updated_at = <Date 2016-07-16.12:48:08.162>
user = 'https://github.com/AraHaan'

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[AraHaan]

Currently there is a waring printed in python when you try to call a coroutine without yieling from or awaiting it but I would like it to be a SyntaxError when this happens instead.

[AraHaan]

I am thinking like this example:

import asyncio

@asyncio.coroutine
def SomeCoroutine():
    print("test...")

@asyncio.coroutine
def SomeNormalFunction():
    SomeCoroutine()

Will print a warning instead I would like it to be a SyntaxError when the function is called that tries to call a coroutine that has not been yielded/awaited at all.

[AraHaan]

Oh it does not happen if you use the asyncio.coroutine decorater but it does do RuntimeWarning if you use the async def on it.

[AraHaan]

So to make it Error it must be :

import asyncio

async def SomeCoroutine():
    print("test...")

SomeCoroutine()

[bitdancer]

It can't be a syntax error. There are legitimate reasons for calling a coroutine and then passing around the resulting object before awaiting it.

[bitdancer]

Also, fyi it was couterproductive to code this as a Windows issue...that alerted the windows experts, but it is not a windows-specific issue, so it just pinged them needlessly. Also FYI, enahancements can only go into the next feature release, so the correct versions selection would have been 3.6 only.