Asyncio has an amazing mechanism showing "Task exception was never retrieved" or "Future exception was never retrieved" if the task threw an exception, and no one checked its `.result()` or `.exception()`.
It does so by setting a private variable named `__log_traceback` to False upon retrieval, and logging at `__del__` if the exception wasn't retrieved.
I believe it's a very important mechanism missing from concurrent.futures. It's very easy to implement.
I wanted to see if there's any disagreement before I implement it though. It's small enough to not need python-ideas yet important enough for inclusion I believe.
Regarding potential issues - I can only see issues with unlikely deadlocks at `__del__` (think of a handler taking a lock and this occurs during the handling of another log record). Asyncio however already took that bet, and although it's less planned for multi-threading, it's still a bet that was totally worth it.
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