In bpo-24342, the invocation of coroutine wrappers specified via sys.set_coroutine_wrapper was fixed to catch and report the case of infinite recursion, where the wrapper attempts to instantiate a nested coroutine (which would call the wrapper, which would attempt to instantiate the coroutine, etc, etc)

The docs for sys.set_coroutine_wrapper include an example of this failure case: https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html#sys.set_coroutine_wrapper

However, if you're not reading carefully, it looks like an example of how to *use* sys.set_coroutine_wrapper, rather than an example of a case that won't work.

It would be better to include an example that either doesn't wrap the coroutine at all, or else uses one of the non-native coroutine emulations to avoid the infinite recursion problem:

import asyncio, sys

def wrapper(coro):
    @asyncio.coroutine
    def wrap(coro):
        print("Coroutine started")
        result = yield from coro
        print("Coroutine finished")
        return result
    return wrap(coro)

sys.set_coroutine_wrapper(wrapper)

async def foo():
    print("Coroutine running")
    return "Coroutine result"

import asyncio
asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(foo())

Also related: I discovered in writing this that "sys.set_coroutine_wrapper(None)" doesn't actually turn off coroutine wrapping. Instead, you still get this exception when attempting to recursively define an unwrapped one:

RuntimeError: coroutine wrapper <NULL> attempted to recursively wrap <code object wrap at 0x7eff31fbde40, file "<stdin>", line 2>)

That error was produced as follows:

import sys, contextlib

@contextlib.contextmanager
def disable_coroutine_wrapping():
    wrapper = sys.get_coroutine_wrapper()
    sys.set_coroutine_wrapper(None)
    try:
        yield
    finally:
        sys.set_coroutine_wrapper(wrapper)

def wrapper(coro):
    async def wrap(coro):
        print("Coroutine started")
        result = await coro
        print("Coroutine finished")
        return result
    with disable_coroutine_wrapping():
        return wrap(coro)

sys.set_coroutine_wrapper(wrapper)

async def foo():
    print("Coroutine running")
    return "Coroutine result"

import asyncio
asyncio.get_event_loop().run_until_complete(foo())

I think this can be closed as sys.set_coroutine_wrapper was removed in https://bugs.python.org/issue36933

Right, I close the issue.