Such an idiom is IMHO not the main usefulness of this function tho.

As an (untested) example, something like

async def f(n):
   await asyncio.sleep(n)
   return n

for f in asyncio.as_completed([f(3), f(2), f(1)]):
    print(await f)


will print:

1
2
3

That’s *super* useful if you’re coordinating multiple independent external systems and need to process their results as soon as they arrive (and not once they’re *all* done).

Maybe it always worked by accident for me but it’s my understanding, that that is what this function is for (and I haven’t found another way to achieve it).

That’s why it would be nice if there’d be authoritative docs on what it’s supposed to do. :)