bpo-46752: Add TaskGroup; add Task..cancelled(),.uncancel() (GH-31270)

asyncio/taskgroups.py is an adaptation of taskgroup.py from EdgeDb, with the following key changes:

- Allow creating new tasks as long as the last task hasn't finished
- Raise [Base]ExceptionGroup (directly) rather than TaskGroupError deriving from MultiError
- Instead of monkey-patching the parent task's cancel() method,
  add a new public API to Task

The Task class has a new internal flag, `_cancel_requested`, which is set when `.cancel()` is called successfully. The `.cancelling()` method returns the value of this flag. Further `.cancel()` calls while this flag is set return False. To reset this flag, call `.uncancel()`.

Thus, a Task that catches and ignores `CancelledError` should call `.uncancel()` if it wants to be cancellable again; until it does so, it is deemed to be busy with uninterruptible cleanup.

This new Task API helps solve the problem where TaskGroup needs to distinguish between whether the parent task being cancelled "from the outside" vs. "from inside".

Co-authored-by: Yury Selivanov <yury@edgedb.com>
Co-authored-by: Andrew Svetlov <andrew.svetlov@gmail.com>

Lib/asyncio/__init__.py

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 from .streams import *
 from .subprocess import *
 from .tasks import *
+from .taskgroups import *
 from .threads import *
 from .transports import *
 

Lib/asyncio/base_tasks.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 def _task_repr_info(task):
     info = base_futures._future_repr_info(task)
 
-    if task._must_cancel:
+    if task.cancelling() and not task.done():
         # replace status
         info[0] = 'cancelling'
 

Lib/asyncio/taskgroups.py

@@ -0,0 +1,235 @@
+# Adapted with permission from the EdgeDB project.
+
+
+__all__ = ["TaskGroup"]
+
+import itertools
+import textwrap
+import traceback
+import types
+import weakref
+
+from . import events
+from . import exceptions
+from . import tasks
+
+class TaskGroup:
+
+    def __init__(self, *, name=None):
+        if name is None:
+            self._name = f'tg-{_name_counter()}'
+        else:
+            self._name = str(name)
+
+        self._entered = False
+        self._exiting = False
+        self._aborting = False
+        self._loop = None
+        self._parent_task = None
+        self._parent_cancel_requested = False
+        self._tasks = weakref.WeakSet()
+        self._unfinished_tasks = 0
+        self._errors = []
+        self._base_error = None
+        self._on_completed_fut = None
+
+    def get_name(self):
+        return self._name
+
+    def __repr__(self):
+        msg = f'<TaskGroup {self._name!r}'
+        if self._tasks:
+            msg += f' tasks:{len(self._tasks)}'
+        if self._unfinished_tasks:
+            msg += f' unfinished:{self._unfinished_tasks}'
+        if self._errors:
+            msg += f' errors:{len(self._errors)}'
+        if self._aborting:
+            msg += ' cancelling'
+        elif self._entered:
+            msg += ' entered'
+        msg += '>'
+        return msg
+
+    async def __aenter__(self):
+        if self._entered:
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                f"TaskGroup {self!r} has been already entered")
+        self._entered = True
+
+        if self._loop is None:
+            self._loop = events.get_running_loop()
+
+        self._parent_task = tasks.current_task(self._loop)
+        if self._parent_task is None:
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                f'TaskGroup {self!r} cannot determine the parent task')
+
+        return self
+
+    async def __aexit__(self, et, exc, tb):
+        self._exiting = True
+        propagate_cancellation_error = None
+
+        if (exc is not None and
+                self._is_base_error(exc) and
+                self._base_error is None):
+            self._base_error = exc
+
+        if et is exceptions.CancelledError:
+            if self._parent_cancel_requested:
+                # Only if we did request task to cancel ourselves
+                # we mark it as no longer cancelled.
+                self._parent_task.uncancel()
+            else:
+                propagate_cancellation_error = et
+
+        if et is not None and not self._aborting:
+            # Our parent task is being cancelled:
+            #
+            #    async with TaskGroup() as g:
+            #        g.create_task(...)
+            #        await ...  # <- CancelledError
+            #
+            if et is exceptions.CancelledError:
+                propagate_cancellation_error = et
+
+            # or there's an exception in "async with":
+            #
+            #    async with TaskGroup() as g:
+            #        g.create_task(...)
+            #        1 / 0
+            #
+            self._abort()
+
+        # We use while-loop here because "self._on_completed_fut"
+        # can be cancelled multiple times if our parent task
+        # is being cancelled repeatedly (or even once, when
+        # our own cancellation is already in progress)
+        while self._unfinished_tasks:
+            if self._on_completed_fut is None:
+                self._on_completed_fut = self._loop.create_future()
+
+            try:
+                await self._on_completed_fut
+            except exceptions.CancelledError as ex:
+                if not self._aborting:
+                    # Our parent task is being cancelled:
+                    #
+                    #    async def wrapper():
+                    #        async with TaskGroup() as g:
+                    #            g.create_task(foo)
+                    #
+                    # "wrapper" is being cancelled while "foo" is
+                    # still running.
+                    propagate_cancellation_error = ex
+                    self._abort()
+
+            self._on_completed_fut = None
+
+        assert self._unfinished_tasks == 0
+        self._on_completed_fut = None  # no longer needed
+
+        if self._base_error is not None:
+            raise self._base_error
+
+        if propagate_cancellation_error is not None:
+            # The wrapping task was cancelled; since we're done with
+            # closing all child tasks, just propagate the cancellation
+            # request now.
+            raise propagate_cancellation_error
+
+        if et is not None and et is not exceptions.CancelledError:
+            self._errors.append(exc)
+
+        if self._errors:
+            # Exceptions are heavy objects that can have object
+            # cycles (bad for GC); let's not keep a reference to
+            # a bunch of them.
+            errors = self._errors
+            self._errors = None
+
+            me = BaseExceptionGroup('unhandled errors in a TaskGroup', errors)
+            raise me from None
+
+    def create_task(self, coro):
+        if not self._entered:
+            raise RuntimeError(f"TaskGroup {self!r} has not been entered")
+        if self._exiting and self._unfinished_tasks == 0:
+            raise RuntimeError(f"TaskGroup {self!r} is finished")
+        task = self._loop.create_task(coro)
+        task.add_done_callback(self._on_task_done)
+        self._unfinished_tasks += 1
+        self._tasks.add(task)
+        return task
+
+    # Since Python 3.8 Tasks propagate all exceptions correctly,
+    # except for KeyboardInterrupt and SystemExit which are
+    # still considered special.
+
+    def _is_base_error(self, exc: BaseException) -> bool:
+        assert isinstance(exc, BaseException)
+        return isinstance(exc, (SystemExit, KeyboardInterrupt))
+
+    def _abort(self):
+        self._aborting = True
+
+        for t in self._tasks:
+            if not t.done():
+                t.cancel()
+
+    def _on_task_done(self, task):
+        self._unfinished_tasks -= 1
+        assert self._unfinished_tasks >= 0
+
+        if self._on_completed_fut is not None and not self._unfinished_tasks:
+            if not self._on_completed_fut.done():
+                self._on_completed_fut.set_result(True)
+
+        if task.cancelled():
+            return
+
+        exc = task.exception()
+        if exc is None:
+            return
+
+        self._errors.append(exc)
+        if self._is_base_error(exc) and self._base_error is None:
+            self._base_error = exc
+
+        if self._parent_task.done():
+            # Not sure if this case is possible, but we want to handle
+            # it anyways.
+            self._loop.call_exception_handler({
+                'message': f'Task {task!r} has errored out but its parent '
+                           f'task {self._parent_task} is already completed',
+                'exception': exc,
+                'task': task,
+            })
+            return
+
+        self._abort()
+        if not self._parent_task.cancelling():
+            # If parent task *is not* being cancelled, it means that we want
+            # to manually cancel it to abort whatever is being run right now
+            # in the TaskGroup.  But we want to mark parent task as
+            # "not cancelled" later in __aexit__.  Example situation that
+            # we need to handle:
+            #
+            #    async def foo():
+            #        try:
+            #            async with TaskGroup() as g:
+            #                g.create_task(crash_soon())
+            #                await something  # <- this needs to be canceled
+            #                                 #    by the TaskGroup, e.g.
+            #                                 #    foo() needs to be cancelled
+            #        except Exception:
+            #            # Ignore any exceptions raised in the TaskGroup
+            #            pass
+            #        await something_else     # this line has to be called
+            #                                 # after TaskGroup is finished.
+            self._parent_cancel_requested = True
+            self._parent_task.cancel()
+
+
+_name_counter = itertools.count(1).__next__

Lib/asyncio/tasks.py

@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ def __init__(self, coro, *, loop=None, name=None):
         else:
             self._name = str(name)
 
+        self._cancel_requested = False
         self._must_cancel = False
         self._fut_waiter = None
         self._coro = coro
@@ -201,6 +202,9 @@ def cancel(self, msg=None):
         self._log_traceback = False
         if self.done():
             return False
+        if self._cancel_requested:
+            return False
+        self._cancel_requested = True
         if self._fut_waiter is not None:
             if self._fut_waiter.cancel(msg=msg):
                 # Leave self._fut_waiter; it may be a Task that
@@ -212,6 +216,16 @@ def cancel(self, msg=None):
         self._cancel_message = msg
         return True
 
+    def cancelling(self):
+        return self._cancel_requested
+
+    def uncancel(self):
+        if self._cancel_requested:
+            self._cancel_requested = False
+            return True
+        else:
+            return False
+
     def __step(self, exc=None):
         if self.done():
             raise exceptions.InvalidStateError(
@@ -634,7 +648,7 @@ def _ensure_future(coro_or_future, *, loop=None):
         loop = events._get_event_loop(stacklevel=4)
     try:
         return loop.create_task(coro_or_future)
-    except RuntimeError: 
+    except RuntimeError:
         if not called_wrap_awaitable:
             coro_or_future.close()
         raise