Asyncio issues

[francijb]

I am not super familiar with asyncio. I am building a program to build custom views on the monarch data. However, I am running into an issue whenever with the asyncio part:

mm = MonarchMoney()
await mm.login(user_name, pw)

SyntaxError: 'await' outside async function

When run individually, they work fine. But when trying to run them all at once, it triggers an error. Is there a way around this?

[hammem]

@francijb , can you share a bit more of the code? I have a feeling you are calling the await inside of a non-async function, but would be good to see the code around it to confirm.

As an example, this will cause the error you are seeing:

def my_func() {
  ...
  mm = MonarchMoney()
  await mm.login(user_name, pw) # This fails because an async keyword is being used inside a non-async function
}

If that's what's happening, you have two options:

• convert the outer function to be async def my_func()
  • That will mean you need call it with await as well
  • This may not be possible, if you don't control the API of the outer function
• instead of using await use the asyncio library functions to wrap it in a non-async helper

For the first option, this is what your refactored code would look like

from monarchmoney import MonarchMoney

async def my_func() {
    mm = MonarchMoney()
    await mm.login(user_name, pw) # everything is async now, so it works!
}

For the latter, you can do the following:

import asyncio
from monarchmoney import MonarchMoney

def my_func() {
    mm = MonarchMoney()
    asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(mm.login(user_name, pw)) # 'converts' the async function in to a synchronous one
}

[francijb]

Thank you so much. You got it exactly. I was creating a function like you described. The async def myfunc() solved the problem. I appreciate it.