[mhils]

The note in the official Python documentation was only added in September 2022 [1], so no wonder this comes as a surprise to many!

[1] https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6281affee6423296893...

[terom]

That commit is adding the same disclaimer for the `shield` function, the original one-line mention for `create_task()` is a little older, but also only November 2021, so during 3.11 development...?

[1] https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c750adbe6990ee8239b...