I'm not saying the OP code isn't useful, but I do think that readers may be unaware of existing documented features and jumping into a library to solve their pe

I'm not saying the OP code isn't useful, but I do think that readers may be unaware of existing documented features and jumping into a library to solve their perceived problems is short changing the existing mechanisms. I've gotten along ok with create_task and gather. I'll need to spend some time with this implementation to see if it fits any of my existing asyncio coding patterns.