As a convenience. It isn't used by the library itself, but it is used by
the test suite. It will also come in handy for users of the library
still on Python 3.6.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210915162955.333025-23-jsnow@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
---
 python/qemu/aqmp/util.py | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)

diff --git a/python/qemu/aqmp/util.py b/python/qemu/aqmp/util.py
index 52a15321889..eaa5fc7d5f9 100644
--- a/python/qemu/aqmp/util.py
+++ b/python/qemu/aqmp/util.py
@@ -147,6 +147,25 @@ async def wait_closed(writer: asyncio.StreamWriter) -> None:
         await asyncio.sleep(0)
 
 
+def asyncio_run(coro: Coroutine[Any, Any, T], *, debug: bool = False) -> T:
+    """
+    Python 3.6-compatible `asyncio.run` wrapper.
+
+    :param coro: A coroutine to execute now.
+    :return: The return value from the coroutine.
+    """
+    if sys.version_info >= (3, 7):
+        return asyncio.run(coro, debug=debug)
+
+    # Python 3.6
+    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
+    loop.set_debug(debug)
+    ret = loop.run_until_complete(coro)
+    loop.close()
+
+    return ret
+
+
 # ----------------------------
 # Section: Logging & Debugging
 # ----------------------------
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