Merge pull request #111 from meejah/sleep-future

Sleep future

docs/releases.rst

@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 txio releases
 =============
 
+unreleased
+----------
+
+- the asyncio version of sleep() correctly returns a Future instance
+
+
 2.8.0
 -----
 

txaio/aio.py

@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ class _AsyncioApi(object):
         :param delay: Time to sleep in seconds.
         :type delay: float
         """
-        return asyncio.sleep(delay)
+        return asyncio.ensure_future(asyncio.sleep(delay))
 
 
 _default_api = _AsyncioApi(config)