RuntimeError: There is no current event loop in thread in async + apscheduler

Question

I have a async function and need to run in with apscheduller every N minutes. There is a python code below

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Answer 1

Since this question continues to appear on the first page, I will write my problem and my answer here.

I had a RuntimeError: There is no current event loop in thread 'Thread-X'. when using flask-socketio and Bleak.

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Edit: well, I refactored my file and made a class.

I initialized the loop in the constructor, and now everything is working fine:

class BLE:
    def __init__(self):
        self.loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()

    # function example, improvement of
    # https://github.com/hbldh/bleak/blob/master/examples/discover.py :
    def list_bluetooth_low_energy(self) -> list:
        async def run() -> list:
            BLElist = []
            devices = await bleak.discover()
            for d in devices:
                BLElist.append(d.name)
            return 'success', BLElist
        return self.loop.run_until_complete(run())

Usage:

ble = path.to.lib.BLE()
list = ble.list_bluetooth_low_energy()

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Original answer:

The solution was stupid. I did not pay attention to what I did, but I moved some import out of a function, like this:

import asyncio, platform
from bleak import discover

def listBLE() -> dict:
    async def run() -> dict:
        # my code that keep throwing exceptions.

    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
    ble_list = loop.run_until_complete(run())
    return ble_list

So I thought that I needed to change something in my code, and I created a new event loop using this piece of code just before the line with get_event_loop():

loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
loop = asyncio.set_event_loop()

At this moment I was pretty happy, since I had a loop running.

But not responding. And my code relied on a timeout to return some values, so it was pretty bad for my app.

It took me nearly two hours to figure out that the problem was the import, and here is my (working) code:

def list() -> dict:
    import asyncio, platform
    from bleak import discover

    async def run() -> dict:
        # my code running perfectly

    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
    ble_list  = loop.run_until_complete(run())
    return ble_list