> - don't pass the loop around. Use asyncio.get_event_loop(). This way your code will be independent of the loop creation process.

Eh. I've been passing the loop around as an optional kw argument in most of my code...

The idea was for the code not to depend on a global somewhere (I hate globals) and to "be sure" the loop used among all the code was the same, unless explicitly passed. Of course I never used that "feature". I thought I read this somewhere when I was looking up at Twisted and they were saying to pass it explicitly, but I'm not so sure now...