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Document that asyncio doesn't support generator-based coroutines

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asyncio dropped generator-based coroutines in 3.12, but the docs never say so

Proposed fix: state this in the Awaitables section, note the TypeError on create_task(), and add the missing versionchanged:: 3.12 to iscoroutine()

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  • gh-157787

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Read the asyncio documentation's Awaitables section and the iscoroutine() entry first. Done means the docs state that generator-based coroutines are unsupported, explain the TypeError from create_task(), and include the versionchanged:: 3.12 note for iscoroutine().

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python
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documentation
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Documentation
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