RuntimeError: Timeout context manager should be used inside a task

I’m not sure if this is a discord.py problem or an asyncio problem or just an operator error, so if it isn’t discord.py’s problem - my apologies.

dl = asyncio.new_event_loop()

dl.run_until_complete(login())

produces

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./daemon.py", line 98, in <module>
    dl.run_until_complete(login())
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/base_events.py", line 387, in run_until_complete
    return future.result()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/futures.py", line 274, in result
    raise self._exception
  File "/usr/lib/python3.5/asyncio/tasks.py", line 239, in _step
    result = coro.send(None)
  File "./daemon.py", line 92, in login
    await client.login(config["token"])
  File "/home/zenforic/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 416, in login
    yield from getattr(self, '_login_' + str(n))(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/zenforic/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/discord/client.py", line 346, in _login_1
    data = yield from self.http.static_login(token, bot=is_bot)
  File "/home/zenforic/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/discord/http.py", line 258, in static_login
    data = yield from self.request(Route('GET', '/users/@me'))
  File "/home/zenforic/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/discord/http.py", line 137, in request
    r = yield from self.session.request(method, url, **kwargs)
  File "/home/zenforic/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/aiohttp/client.py", line 555, in __iter__
    resp = yield from self._coro
  File "/home/zenforic/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/aiohttp/client.py", line 197, in _request
    with Timeout(timeout, loop=self._loop):
  File "/home/zenforic/.local/lib/python3.5/site-packages/async_timeout/__init__.py", line 36, in __enter__
    raise RuntimeError('Timeout context manager should be used '
RuntimeError: Timeout context manager should be used inside a task
Unclosed client session
client_session: <aiohttp.client.ClientSession object at 0x7fd967aa0b00>

however, it does not give the error if I use

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()

loop.run_until_complete(login())

but the problem with that is it blocks the rest of the file, which won’t work.

[Heanthor]

@Gorialis I was having this same issue and your comment helped me fix it. For anyone else having this problem, here’s what I did:

def start_loop(loop, gen):
    loop.run_until_complete(gen)


class DiscordAccessor:
    discord_loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
    client = discord.Client(loop=discord_loop)

    def __init__(self):
        self.channel_id = 'channelID'

        self.discord_coroutine = DiscordAccessor.client.start('token')

        self.discord_thread = Thread(target=start_loop, args=(self.discord_loop, self.discord_coroutine))
        self.discord_thread.start()

The event loop is set when initializing the client, and the separate thread blocks on the same loop. Otherwise, the client attempts to run on the event loop of the thread used to create it (client.py:142).

[khazhyk]

just use bot.run()

Look at the examples directory, it has plenty of working bots