force create_task execution

I used asyncio.create_task() only to realize that the task is fed to the task engine at a very late time. To make late time of execution obvious, I put some IO requests in the code below:

import asyncio
import requests

async def func2():
    # always executes last
    print("async asf")

def func1():
    asyncio.create_task(func2())

async def main():
    print("main started")
    func1()
    print("main ended")

    # lets do some IO requests to give python plenty of time to execute func2
    session = requests.Session()
    response = session.get("https://youtube.com")

    # this should be the last thing printed, but it is not
    print(response.status_code)

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

This prints:

main started
main ended
200
async asf

Although I expected async asf to be before 200

How do you artificially trigger task execution? Is there some semantic sugar?

source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71959849/force-create-task-execution