gh-90431: Document cancellation behavior of asyncio.wait() and asyncio.as_completed() (#153616)

kumaraditya303 · web-flow · commit dd2faeb33d5f · 2026-07-12T10:54:42.000Z
diff --git a/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst b/Doc/library/asyncio-task.rst
@@ -924,6 +924,9 @@ Waiting primitives
    Unlike :func:`~asyncio.wait_for`, ``wait()`` does not cancel the
    futures when a timeout occurs.
 
+   If ``wait()`` is cancelled, the futures in *aws* are not cancelled
+   and continue to run.
+
    .. versionchanged:: 3.10
       Removed the *loop* parameter.
 
@@ -981,6 +984,10 @@ Waiting primitives
    are done. This is raised by the ``async for`` loop during asynchronous
    iteration or by the coroutines yielded during plain iteration.
 
+   ``as_completed()`` does not cancel the tasks running the supplied
+   awaitables: if a timeout occurs or the iteration is cancelled, the
+   remaining tasks continue to run.
+
    .. versionchanged:: 3.10
       Removed the *loop* parameter.
 
