[issue39698] asyncio.sleep() does not adhere to time.sleep() behavior for negative numbers

[Yury Selivanov]

Yury Selivanov <yselivanov at gmail.com> added the comment:

> The ship has sailed, this change breaks a lot of existing code without a strong reason.

Yes.

It's a common thing to compute asyncio.sleep delay and sometimes it goes negative. The current behavior is part of our API now.

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resolution:  -> not a bug
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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