🔒 Weird traceback

[neat cliff]

async def get_user_input():
    try:

        name = await asyncio.wait_for(input("Type your name: "), timeout=5)
        key = await asyncio.wait_for(input("Write your key: "), timeout=5)
        return name, key
    except asyncio.TimeoutError:
        print("Your time is out.")
        return None, None


async def generate_palindromes():
    while True:
        s = ''.join(random.choices(string.ascii_lowercase, k=5))
        palindrome = s + s[::-1]
        print(f"{palindrome} created")
        await asyncio.sleep(1)


async def main():
    task1 = asyncio.create_task(get_user_input())
    task2 = asyncio.create_task(generate_palindromes())

    name, key = await task1
    if name and key:
        print(f"Name: {name}, Key: {key}")

    task2.cancel()
    try:
        await task2
    except asyncio.CancelledError:
        print("Generation of palindrome cancelled.")


asyncio.run(main())```

[untold girder]

@neat cliff

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[livid kernel]

... where is the traceback?

[neat cliff]

TypeError: An asyncio.Future, a coroutine or an awaitable is required

[dark anvil]

What's the full traceback?

[neat cliff]

  File "/home/user/Python/foo.py", line 41, in <module>
    asyncio.run(main())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/asyncio/runners.py", line 44, in run
    return loop.run_until_complete(main)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/asyncio/base_events.py", line 649, in run_until_complete
    return future.result()
  File "/home/user/Python/foo.py", line 30, in main
    name, key = await task1
  File "/home/user/Python/foo.py", line 10, in get_user_input
    name = await asyncio.wait_for(input("Type your name: "), timeout=5)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/asyncio/tasks.py", line 426, in wait_for
    fut = ensure_future(fut, loop=loop)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/asyncio/tasks.py", line 615, in ensure_future
    return _ensure_future(coro_or_future, loop=loop)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/asyncio/tasks.py", line 630, in _ensure_future
    raise TypeError('An asyncio.Future, a coroutine or an awaitable '
TypeError: An asyncio.Future, a coroutine or an awaitable is required

[dark anvil]

asyncio.wait_for(input("Type your name: "), timeout=5)

input isn't a coroutine.

!d asyncio.wait_for

[untold girder]

asyncio.wait\_for

coroutine asyncio.wait_for(aw, timeout)```
Wait for the *aw* [awaitable](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#asyncio-awaitables) to complete with a timeout.

If *aw* is a coroutine it is automatically scheduled as a Task.

*timeout* can either be `None` or a float or int number of seconds to wait for. If *timeout* is `None`, block until the future completes.

If a timeout occurs, it cancels the task and raises [`TimeoutError`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#TimeoutError).

To avoid the task [`cancellation`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#asyncio.Task.cancel), wrap it in [`shield()`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#asyncio.shield).

The function will wait until the future is actually cancelled, so the total wait time may exceed the *timeout*. If an exception happens during cancellation, it is propagated...

[inner nebula]

Timing out user input is a real pain in python sorry about that

You might be able to get it working with something that controls the terminal completely, eg textual

[dark anvil]

I think I handled the previously with threads that I terminated after a timeout, but ya, it was a pain and messy.

[inner nebula]

Can't terminate a thread running input

[untold girder]

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