RuntimeError at /accounts/register/ There is no current event loop in thread 'Thread-1'

Question

I want to implement an email verification in my django app so, I am using an external module verify_email in that there is a function called verify_email() to check whether an entered email address exists or not. In my view.py file I am checking if the mail is valid then a user is created but, the problem is the function verify_email() takes some time to get the result. I think we need to use some kind of await statement to wait for the result but I am getting errors like this when I try to use it normally.

This is the pypi project link.

def register(request):
    if(request.method == 'POST'):
        email = request.POST['email']
        password = request.POST['pass']
        username = request.POST['username']
        check = verify_email(email)
        
        if check:
            user = User.objects.create_user(username,email,password)
            user.save()
            return redirect('/')
        else:
            messages.info(request,'email invalid')
            return redirect('register')

Description of the error:

Environment:


Request Method: POST
Request URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000/accounts/register/

Django Version: 3.2.3
Python Version: 3.8.5

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/akshith/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.py", line 47, in inner
    response = get_response(request)
  File "/home/akshith/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 181, in _get_response
    response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
  File "/home/akshith/Desktop/django-app/testing/final (copy)/accounts/views.py", line 55, in register
    check = verify_email(email)
  File "/home/akshith/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/verify_email/verify_email.py", line 103, in verify_email
    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/asyncio/events.py", line 639, in get_event_loop
    raise RuntimeError('There is no current event loop in thread %r.'

Exception Type: RuntimeError at /accounts/register/
Exception Value: There is no current event loop in thread 'Thread-1'.

Is there a way to use asyncio or any other ways to deal with this kind of error?

Answer 1

Do you really think that the user should proceed even without email verification? It usually takes atleast few seconds to verify email on any website, So that should not be a problem. And for Concurrent requests you don't need to worry because django handles them very efficiently.

And sorry, I didn't had enough reputation to comment:)