@Marvin, how can I get the task associated with the PrefectFuture produced with

task.submit()

?

When you use

task.submit()

in Prefect, it returns a

PrefectFuture

. This future is essentially a handle to the asynchronous execution of a task. However, the

PrefectFuture

itself does not directly provide a method to retrieve the task object associated with it. To interact with the task associated with a

PrefectFuture

, you typically work with the result or state of the task through methods like

.result()

, which waits for the task to complete and returns its result. Here's a concise example:

python
from prefect import task, flow

@task
def my_task():
    return "Hello, Marvin!"

@flow
def my_flow():
    future = my_task.submit()
    result = future.result()  # Retrieves the result of the task
    print(result)

my_flow()

In this example, the

my_task.submit()

returns a

PrefectFuture

, and you can use

future.result()

to get the result of the task once it completes. For more details, you can refer to the Prefect futures documentation and the task runners documentation.