Python turn sync functions to async (and async to sync)

async.py

from functools import wraps
import asyncio


def get_event_loop():
    try:
        return asyncio.get_event_loop()
    except RuntimeError as e:
        if "There is no current event loop in thread" in str(e):
            loop = asyncio.new_event_loop()
            asyncio.set_event_loop(loop)
            return asyncio.get_event_loop()
        raise


def force_async(fn):
    '''
    turns a sync function to async function using threads
    '''
    from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
    pool = ThreadPoolExecutor()

    @wraps(fn)
    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
        future = pool.submit(fn, *args, **kwargs)
        return asyncio.wrap_future(future)  # make it awaitable

    return wrapper


def force_sync(fn):
    '''
    turn an async function to sync function
    '''
    @wraps(fn)
    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
        res = fn(*args, **kwargs)
        return get_event_loop().run_until_complete(res) if asyncio.iscoroutine(res) else res

    return wrapper

test.py

import unittest
from async import *

class AsyncCanTurnAsyncIntoSyncFunction(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_turn_async_to_sync(self):
        @force_sync
        async def test():
            import asyncio
            await asyncio.sleep(0.1)
            return 1 + 2

        self.assertEqual(test(), 3)

    def test_turn_sync_to_sync(self):
        @force_sync
        def test():
            return 1 + 2

        self.assertEqual(test(), 3)


class AsyncCanTurnSyncIntoAsyncFunction(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_turn_sync_to_async(self):
        @force_async
        def test():
            import time
            time.sleep(1)
            return True

        @force_sync
        async def main():
            import asyncio
            # if it were to execute sequentially, it would take 10 seconds, in this case we expect to see only 1 second
            futures = list(map(lambda x: test(),
                               range(10)))
            return await asyncio.gather(*futures)

        import time
        # take the elapsed time
        start = time.time()
        res = main()
        end = time.time()
        elapsed = end - start
        self.assertEqual(len(res), 10)
        self.assertLess(elapsed, 1.2) # a little more than 1 second is normal