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> 1. In PEP525 the documentation for aclose() is a bit terse and unclear to me. It appeared to suggest that you could catch GeneratorExit and yield, but I found this to result in a RuntimeError like a normal generator. I tried to document this as it actually behaves.
Yes, it should result in a RuntimeError. What PEP 525 is trying to explain is that it's OK to do this (although 'finally' is better):
 async def gen():
 try:
 yield
 except GeneratorExit:
 await smth()
 # using 'yield' here will trigger a RuntimeError
 raise
> 2. One thing that I noticed documented about normal generators is that they raise a ValueError if you try to run send() while another send() call is currently running. I verified this using threads. I looked into corresponding behavior for asynchronous generators, calling asend(), running the awaitable halfway through, and then calling asend() again to get a second awaitable before the first one finished. Asyncio seems to prevent more than one awaitable from a single async generator running at the same time, but I couldn't figure out how. Running some coroutines "by hand" calling asend() and send(), I was permitted to run multiple awaitables concurrently which produced odd results.
Interesting. This is something that has to be fixed (in 3.6.1)