>> I now think that we don't need a new function for getting the currently running event loop.

> May I ask you to elaborate on this?

In my last message I propose to modify 'get_event_loop' to return the running loop reliably.  To me this is to me the most important thing -- this will make things like Task.current more reliable.

Adding another function (get_running_loop) won't change much. It would have a slightly different behaviour, but likely it won't be used anywhere in asyncio, or other libraries.