[Python-checkins] GH-85979: Clarify specification of `object.__await__` (#22320)

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Sat Dec 31 01:24:13 EST 2022


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/f59c7f8edd5ba5f6c1954383542a2292bcf51d91
commit: f59c7f8edd5ba5f6c1954383542a2292bcf51d91
branch: main
author: Paolo Lammens <lammenspaolo at gmail.com>
committer: kumaraditya303 <59607654+kumaraditya303 at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2022-12-31T11:54:04+05:30
summary:

GH-85979: Clarify specification of `object.__await__` (#22320)

Co-authored-by: Kumar Aditya <59607654+kumaraditya303 at users.noreply.github.com>

files:
M Doc/reference/datamodel.rst

diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index fd682fcff020..1d2ddf3507ae 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -2950,6 +2950,14 @@ are awaitable.
    :term:`awaitable` objects.  For instance, :class:`asyncio.Future` implements
    this method to be compatible with the :keyword:`await` expression.
 
+   .. note::
+
+      The language doesn't place any restriction on the type or value of the
+      objects yielded by the iterator returned by ``__await__``, as this is
+      specific to the implementation of the asynchronous execution framework
+      (e.g. :mod:`asyncio`) that will be managing the :term:`awaitable` object.
+
+
 .. versionadded:: 3.5
 
 .. seealso:: :pep:`492` for additional information about awaitable objects.



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