> There is no reason a scheduler could not be totally lazy and only execute the coroutine once awaited.

Isn't the point of create_task (which is what the article is about) to launch concurrent tasks without immediately awaiting them? The example in the docs [1] wouldn't work (in the stated manner) if the task didn't start until it was awaited.

> At least he bothered to make note of TaskGroups [...] Yep, that's all there was to it.

That only works on Python 3.11, which was released just a few months ago. Debian still uses 3.9, for example, so the TaskGroups solution can't be used everywhere yet.

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#coroutin...