#! /usr/bin/env python3 from asyncio import gather, get_event_loop, sleep, Event from signal import SIGINT, SIGTERM def shutdown_signaled(): print('Shutdown requested.') shutdown.set() async def small_work(shutdown): while not shutdown.is_set(): await sleep(0.5) print('Small work is done!') print('Exited small work.') async def big_work(shutdown): while not shutdown.is_set(): await sleep(5) print('Big work is done!!!') print('Exited big work.') # when this event is set the application is ready to shutdown shutdown = Event() # setting up our own handler for Ctrl+C and SIGTERM (sent with kill) # by setting this handler running tasks will not get an exception thrown at them event_loop = get_event_loop() event_loop.add_signal_handler(SIGINT, shutdown_signaled) event_loop.add_signal_handler(SIGTERM, shutdown_signaled) # combining our two tasks as one combined_tasks = gather(small_work(shutdown), big_work(shutdown)) # run our tasks and block event_loop.run_until_complete(combined_tasks)