The missing await is a a very common fault indeed, they should have used another keyword like 'not_await' for that scenario to make the decision explicit. Pycha

The missing await is a a very common fault indeed, they should have used another keyword like 'not_await' for that scenario to make the decision explicit. Pycharm at least will warn you if you call an awaitable without 'await' and without assigning it to a variable. If you assign it to a variable and pass it into another function that doesn't expect an awaitable, it's up to you to have added sufficient type annotations and run your code through some static checker like mypy. Running python at scale without mypy is kindof doomed to failed to begin with.