google-auth-library-python

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default_async returns non-async credentials for GCE and GAE

Environment details

• OS: Linux
• Python version: 3.9
• pip version:
• google-auth version:

Steps to reproduce

Run the following code from GCE or Colab

from google.auth import _default_async
print(_default_async.default_async()[0])

The resulting credentials are non-async

<google.auth.compute_engine.credentials.Credentials at 0x7e24d031ebc0>

The issue does not occur when running outside GCE.

It's easy to see that for GCE default_async just calls the method from default: https://github.com/googleapis/google-auth-library-python/blob/bfab59288fb5e4a9d86f5fff55307a72a0b86e47/google/auth/_default_async.py#L162..L172