With a GLib implementation of the Python asyncio event loop, I can easily mix asyncio code with GLib/GTK code in the same thread. The next step is to see whether we can use this to make any APIs more convenient to use. A good candidate is APIs that make use of GAsyncResult.

These APIs generally consist of one function call that initiates the asynchronous job and takes a callback. The callback will be invoked sometime later with a GAsyncResult object, which can be passed to a "finish" function to convert this to the result type relevant to the original call. This sort of API is a good candidate to convert to an asyncio coroutine.

As an evening project, I've been working on a small library that integrates the GLib main loop with Python's asyncio. I think I've gotten to the point where it might be useful to other people, so have pushed it up here:

https://github.com/jhenstridge/asyncio-glib

This isn't the only attempt to integrate the two event loops, but the other I found (Gbulb) is unmaintained and seems to reimplement a fair bit of the asyncio (e.g. it has its own transport classes). So I thought I'd see if I could write something smaller and more maintainable, reusing as much code from the standard library as possible.