When I wrote the documentation for `asyncio.to_thread()`, I mistakenly assumed that `return await loop.run_in_executor(...)` within an async def function would return a Future. In reality, it returns a coroutine.
This likely won't affect typical usage of `asyncio.to_thread()`, but it's important for the documentation to be correct here. In general, we also tend to avoid returning futures from high-level APIs in asyncio.
(cherry picked from commit 2b201369b4)
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Allows contextvars from the main thread to be accessed in the separate thread used in `asyncio.to_thread()`. See the [discussion](https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/20143GH-discussion_r427808225) in GH-20143 for context.
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(cherry picked from commit 0f56263e62)
Co-authored-by: Kyle Stanley <aeros167@gmail.com>
Implements `asyncio.to_thread`, a coroutine for asynchronously running IO-bound functions in a separate thread without blocking the event loop. See the discussion starting from [here](https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/18410GH-issuecomment-628930973) in GH-18410 for context.
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(cherry picked from commit cc2bbc2227)
Co-authored-by: Kyle Stanley <aeros167@gmail.com>