gh-101143: Remove references to TimerHandle from asyncio.base_events.BaseEventLoop._add_callback (GH-101197)

miss-islington · bdraco · kumaraditya303 · web-flow · commit 99da75e770a7 · 2023-01-21T02:28:09.000-08:00
(cherry picked from commit 9e94767) Co-authored-by: J. Nick Koston <nick@koston.org> Co-authored-by: Kumar Aditya <59607654+kumaraditya303@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/Lib/asyncio/base_events.py b/Lib/asyncio/base_events.py
@@ -1828,12 +1828,9 @@ def call_exception_handler(self, context):
                                  exc_info=True)
 
     def _add_callback(self, handle):
-        """Add a Handle to _scheduled (TimerHandle) or _ready."""
-        assert isinstance(handle, events.Handle), 'A Handle is required here'
-        if handle._cancelled:
-            return
-        assert not isinstance(handle, events.TimerHandle)
-        self._ready.append(handle)
+        """Add a Handle to _ready."""
+        if not handle._cancelled:
+            self._ready.append(handle)
 
     def _add_callback_signalsafe(self, handle):
         """Like _add_callback() but called from a signal handler."""
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-01-20-10-46-59.gh-issue-101143.hJo8hu.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-01-20-10-46-59.gh-issue-101143.hJo8hu.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Remove unused references to :class:`~asyncio.TimerHandle` in
+``asyncio.base_events.BaseEventLoop._add_callback``.

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`@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@`
	`1`	+Remove unused references to :class:`~asyncio.TimerHandle` in
	`2`	+``asyncio.base_events.BaseEventLoop._add_callback``.