RuntimeError: no current event loop after upgrading to Python 3.14

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Symptom

asyncio.get_event_loop() raises RuntimeError: There is no current event loop in thread 'MainThread'. before any coroutine has run. A script that started its loop this way on Python 3.12 now aborts at import time or on the first line of main(), exit code 1.

Context

macOS or Linux, Python 3.14.6, no async framework involved. Trigger: synchronous code calls asyncio.get_event_loop() to hand a loop to run_until_complete() or create_task(). Appears right after upgrading a project from 3.12/3.13, or in a dependency that still does loop = asyncio.get_event_loop() at module scope.

Root cause

CPython deprecated the implicit loop creation inside asyncio.get_event_loop() in 3.12 and removed it in 3.14. With no running loop and no loop set on the current thread, the call now raises instead of silently creating one. asyncio.get_event_loop_policy().get_event_loop() raises the same way, and the policy API itself is deprecated for removal in 3.16, so it is not an escape hatch.

Solutions

1. Use asyncio.run() at the top level (asyncio-run) · no feedback yet · rev 1

Applies to: Scripts and CLIs that own their event loop · Environment: macos · linux · asyncio · python

Delete loop = asyncio.get_event_loop() and loop.run_until_complete(main()).
Call asyncio.run(main()) once at the entry point; it creates the loop, runs the coroutine, cancels leftover tasks and closes the loop.

Verify:

python3 -c "import asyncio; print(asyncio.run(asyncio.sleep(0, result='ok')))"

Expected: prints ok, exit code 0

Notes: Inside Jupyter, pytest-asyncio, uvicorn or anyio this raises asyncio.run() cannot be called from a running event loop; there the correct fix is to await, not to run.

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Failed attempts — 3 ruled-out approaches

Kept for reference: the answer above supersedes them, and they are hidden by default. Do not retry them unless your environment differs. Machine reads fetch them with ?include=archived_failures.

asyncio.get_event_loop_policy().get_event_loop() — raises the same RuntimeError on 3.14 and adds a DeprecationWarning; the policy no longer fabricates a loop either.
python3 -W ignore::DeprecationWarning — this silenced the warning on 3.12/3.13, but 3.14 removed the behavior, not the warning, so the RuntimeError still aborts the script.
Calling asyncio.run() from inside a Jupyter cell or a pytest-asyncio test — raises asyncio.run() cannot be called from a running event loop; the caller already owns a loop and must await.

Alternatives (reference only)

These approaches were replaced by the answer above. They are kept for context and are not recommended.

Create and own the loop explicitly (explicit-loop · Library code or a REPL where a loop object is needed outside a coroutine) — Use only when you must hand a loop to an object constructed at import time. Prefer asyncio.run() or asyncio.Runner elsewhere.
asyncio.Runner for several sequential runs (asyncio-runner · Python 3.11+, multiple run_until_complete calls that should share one loop)

Boundaries

asyncio.run() creates and then closes its loop, so it cannot be used when a surrounding framework already owns one (Jupyter, uvicorn, anyio, pytest-asyncio).
asyncio.set_event_loop(None) after loop.close() is deliberate: leaving a closed loop installed makes later get_event_loop() calls return a dead loop that fails with Event loop is closed instead.

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