RuntimeError: CurrentThreadExecutor already quit or is broken
This code ping-pongs between async_to_sync → sync_to_async → async_to_sync → loop.call_later → create_task → sync_to_async (although this sounds like a bizarre thing to do, it was minimized from a real problem in the Zulip server). It works with asgiref 3.7.2 and 3.8.1, but breaks with current main (abc69a054aa440ef42c939b5a197df05c3ad48d2) with RuntimeError: CurrentThreadExecutor already quit or is broken. A Git bisection implicates 85d2445021ff8e588fb2883a865d768b60bd0902 as the first broken commit:
- #478, cc @spanezz
import asyncio
from asgiref.sync import async_to_sync, sync_to_async
def later(fut: asyncio.Future[asyncio.Task[None]]) -> None:
task = asyncio.create_task(sync_to_async(print)("later"))
fut.set_result(task)
async def inner() -> asyncio.Future[asyncio.Task[None]]:
loop = asyncio.get_running_loop()
fut = loop.create_future()
loop.call_later(1, later, fut)
return fut
async def main() -> None:
fut = await sync_to_async(async_to_sync(inner))()
task = await fut
await task
async_to_sync(main)()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/asgiref-bug/test.py", line 24, in <module>
async_to_sync(main)()
File "/tmp/asgiref-bug/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/asgiref/sync.py", line 256, in __call__
return call_result.result()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/anders/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.5-linux-x86_64-gnu/lib/python3.12/concurrent/futures/_base.py", line 449, in result
return self.__get_result()
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/anders/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.5-linux-x86_64-gnu/lib/python3.12/concurrent/futures/_base.py", line 401, in __get_result
raise self._exception
File "/tmp/asgiref-bug/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/asgiref/sync.py", line 332, in main_wrap
result = await awaitable
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/tmp/asgiref-bug/test.py", line 21, in main
await task
File "/tmp/asgiref-bug/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/asgiref/sync.py", line 456, in __call__
exec_coro = loop.run_in_executor(
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/anders/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.5-linux-x86_64-gnu/lib/python3.12/asyncio/base_events.py", line 863, in run_in_executor
executor.submit(func, *args), loop=self)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/tmp/asgiref-bug/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/asgiref/current_thread_executor.py", line 115, in submit
return self._submit(fn, *args, **kwargs)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/tmp/asgiref-bug/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/asgiref/current_thread_executor.py", line 99, in _submit
raise RuntimeError("CurrentThreadExecutor already quit or is broken")
RuntimeError: CurrentThreadExecutor already quit or is broken
Yup, this is why it's so hard to release changes to that code - I had been holding off releasing it until we could test it, and well, there you go.
I don't have any immediate good ideas on how to solve this except by rolling back the original commit, but I'd rather not, so hopefully there's something more nuanced that's broken here.
This is possibly related, although introduced earlier:
- #492