asyncio.gather not executing tasks when caller function requests input from STDIN?

In the following contrived example I am attempting to get input from STDIN and execute a list of coroutine tasks concurrently using asyncio.gather based on the input from STDIN.:

import asyncio

async def task_1():
    print('task_1!')

async def task_2():
    print('task_2!')

async def task_3():
    print('task_3!')

async def task_4():
    print('task_4!')

async def main():
    opts = {
        '1': [task_1, task_2],
        '2': [task_3, task_4]
    }
    while True:
        opt = input('Enter option: ')
        tasks = opts.get(opt)
        asyncio.gather(t() for t in tasks)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    asyncio.run(main())

However when executing the above code the output does not contain the desired output when the corresponding option is entered.

Input ‘1’ from STDIN should print to STDOUT:

task_1!
task_2!

Input ‘2’ from STDIN should print to STDOUT:

task_2!
task_3!

When entering either ‘1’ or ‘two’ there’s no output. Why aren’t any of the tasks being executed by asyncio.gather?

Answer

You need to await the asyncio, and you need to pass it multiple arguments, not a list.

await asyncio.gather(*(t() for t in tasks))