Debounce python asyncio coroutine

Question

I'm looking for something similar to Python decorator for debouncing including function arguments , except with asyncio coroutines.

The background here is that I'm working on a discord bot with discord.py, and there's a computationally intensive coroutine that I would like to run after every command to the bot. But due to the cost I want to debounce it, since if there's a new command coming in it'll just invalidate the work anyways (think lots of IO and number crunching).

So far the ugly solution I've come up with is:

# Function to be debounced
async def foo():
    asyncio.sleep(300)
    task = None
    res = await do_work()
    await send_result(res)

task = None

async def after_command():
    if task:
        task.cancel()
    task = bot.loop.create_task(foo())

In other words, just cancel the task every time and re-schedule it 5 minutes in the future.

I'm looking for a more elegant solution, hopefully that'll let me do something like:

@debounce(300)
async def foo():
    # Do work

Answer 1

I'm looking for something similar to Python decorator for debouncing including function arguments , except with asyncio coroutines.

The background here is that I'm working on a discord bot with discord.py, and there's a computationally intensive coroutine that I would like to run after every command to the bot. But due to the cost I want to debounce it, since if there's a new command coming in it'll just invalidate the work anyways (think lots of IO and number crunching).

So far the ugly solution I've come up with is:

# Function to be debounced
async def foo():
    asyncio.sleep(300)
    task = None
    res = await do_work()
    await send_result(res)

task = None

async def after_command():
    if task:
        task.cancel()
    task = bot.loop.create_task(foo())

In other words, just cancel the task every time and re-schedule it 5 minutes in the future.

I'm looking for a more elegant solution, hopefully that'll let me do something like:

@debounce(300)
async def foo():
    # Do work