[FIXED] How to set name for asyncio task?

Issue

We have a way to set thread name: thread = threading.Thread(name='Very important thread', target=foo) and after that get this name for logging purposes with %(thread)s: in formatter. Is it possible to do something like this with asyncio.Task?

Solution

You can access the current task with:

asyncio.Task.current_task()

As any other python object, you can dynamically add some properties to a Task. For example, add this to the first line of any of your coroutines that start a new task:

asyncio.Task.current_task().foo = "Bar"
asyncio.Task.current_task().name = "#{}".format(n)

Add a logging filter to output this data with your logger.

Answered By - Udi