Thanks Andrew; 

I'd still would love to have a way to get the current eventloop outside of async code that is consistent. 

I guess throwing an error with `get_event_loop()` is ok, it's just that `RuntimeError` feel like a weird thing to catch.

Alternatively is the current event loop is None I feel like returning None would also make sens imho. 

Feel free to close if you think this will not get fixed/updated.