James, do you recall if there were particular tests affected by this?

I think most (if not all) of the tests we xfailed in distributed/tests/test_failed_workers.py were affected by this. FWIW, I tried switching to asyncio.iscoroutinefunction locally yesterday but don't think cython/cython#3427 has been included in a cython=0.29.* release yet

Thanks for checking James 🙂

Good point. Missed that. Asked upstream if we could backport that PR to 0.29

Would it make sense to add this anyways? Or should we hold off?

Thanks for asking for a backport -- that would be great. I'm slightly inclined to hold off for now just so we can keep this PR around as a reminder to remove the relevant xfails when there's a cython release with cython/cython#3427. Though no strong opinion either way

Yep sounds reasonable to me. Will go ahead and mark it as a draft then

@jakirkham https://github.com/cython/cython/blob/master/CHANGES.rst#features-added-18

Maybe of interest:

• When generators are used in a Cython module and the module imports the modules "inspect" and/or "asyncio", Cython enables interoperability by patching these modules during the import to recognise Cython's internal generator and coroutine types. This can be disabled by C compiling the module with "-D CYTHON_PATCH_ASYNCIO=0" or "-D CYTHON_PATCH_INSPECT=0"
• When generators or coroutines are used in a Cython module, their types are registered with the Generator and Coroutine ABCs in the collections or collections.abc stdlib module at import time to enable interoperability with code that needs to detect and process Python generators/coroutines.

I haven't really looked into this too much so if you have unanswered questions then the cython-users mailing list may be more helpful than me. I think the monkey-patching applies if you import inspect/asyncio from a Cython module. But I imagine it's possible to use one or more of these features to get a workable test on the current version of Cython. The abc test is probably the most useful of these?

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