I have never worked with asyncio and/or asynchronous methods with django and am having a little difficulty understanding.

I am trying to convert a synchronous helper function (create_email_record) into an asynchronous function inside of a form method.

I will minimize some code for better understanding. my form method (begin_processing) has a good amount of logic inside.

def create_email_record(submission):
    print("-----CREATE EMAIL RECORD-------")
    creation = EmailRecord.objects.create()


class Form(forms.Form):

    comments = forms.TextArea()

    def begin_processing():
        submission = Submission.objects.get(id=1)
        print("----------BEGIN ASYNC--------")
        create_email_notification = sync_to_async(create_email_record)(submission)
        asyncio.run(create_email_notification)
        print("----------END ASYNC----------")

When I print this to my console I would think to expect:

(“———-BEGIN ASYNC——–“)
(“———-END ASYNC———-“)
(“—–CREATE EMAIL RECORD——-“)

What I receive is:

(“———-BEGIN ASYNC——–“)
(“—–CREATE EMAIL RECORD——-“)
(“———-END ASYNC———-“)

My Object gets created, and seems to work, but I don’t believe that my converted sync_to_async function is being converted/called correctly.

Maybe I am having some trouble understanding, but what I want to do is call an asynchronous function from a synchronous function/method. I have read a lot on other posts, and online resources, but none seem to fit what I am looking to do. I have not seen this done inside of a form method.