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asyncio.as_completed() raises "no running event loop" when created outside a running loop (3.14 regression)

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Bug report

Bug description:

Since 3.14, asyncio.as_completed() raises RuntimeError: no running event loop when the iterator is created outside of a running event loop, even though the futures are then driven with loop.run_until_complete(). This pattern works on 3.13 and is the same pattern that asyncio.gather() still supports.

import asyncio

async def work(i):
    await asyncio.sleep(0.01 * i)
    return i

loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
asyncio.set_event_loop(loop)
tasks = [loop.create_task(work(i)) for i in (2, 1)]
for f in asyncio.as_completed(tasks):
    print(loop.run_until_complete(f))
loop.close()

3.13:

1
2

main (and 3.14):

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "repro.py", line 10, in <module>
    for f in asyncio.as_completed(tasks):
             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^
  File ".../Lib/asyncio/tasks.py", line 581, in __init__
    self._cur_task = current_task()
RuntimeError: no running event loop

The cause is the awaited-by tracking added in gh-91048: _AsCompletedIterator.__init__ calls current_task() unconditionally. gather() got the same tracking but guards it with events._get_running_loop() and falls back to cur_task = None (which future_add_to_awaited_by() already treats as a no-op). as_completed() should do the same.

I have a fix with a regression test ready.

CPython versions tested on:

CPython main branch, 3.14

Operating systems tested on:

macOS

Linked PRs
  • gh-157857

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Start in Lib/asyncio/tasks.py at _AsCompletedIterator.init, then compare the related handling in asyncio.gather(). Review the regression test mentioned in the issue and run the relevant asyncio test suite. Done means the reported loop.run_until_complete() pattern works on 3.14 without breaking existing asyncio tests.

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