Running coroutines without explicitly awaiting

schedule_coroutines.py

import asyncio
from threading import Event, Thread


class EventLoopThread(Thread):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.loop = None
        self.ready = Event()

    def run(self):
        self.loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
        self.ready.set()
        self.loop.run_forever()


async def hello(name):
    print("hello", name)


thread = EventLoopThread()
thread.start()
thread.ready.wait()

asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe(hello('world'), thread.loop)