Fire and forget task does not hold a strong reference

[bdraco]

aioambient/aioambient/websocket.py

Line 66 in 779c296

self._timeout, lambda: asyncio.create_task(self.on_expire())

https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#asyncio.create_task

Important Save a reference to the result of this function, to avoid a task disappearing mid-execution. The event loop only keeps weak references to tasks. A task that isn’t referenced elsewhere may get garbage collected at any time, even before it’s done. For reliable “fire-and-forget” background tasks, gather them in a collection:

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[bdraco]

Keep alive

[bachya]

Thanks, @bdraco—been slammed at work, so haven't had a chance to look at this, but will soon.

[bdraco]

No worries. This one is low priority