I guess the TimeoutError exception needs to be imported from asyncio.exceptions and not from asyncio.futures that causes AttributeError while instantiating a connection with happy eyeballs. ./python.exe -m asyncio asyncio REPL 3.9.0a2+ (heads/master:068768faf6, Dec 23 2019, 18:35:26) [Clang 10.0.1 (clang-1001.0.46.4)] on darwin Use "await" directly instead of "asyncio.run()". Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import asyncio >>> conn = await asyncio.open_connection("localhost", port=8000, happy_eyeballs_delay=1) Traceback (most recent call last): File "/Users/kasingar/stuff/python/cpython/Lib/concurrent/futures/_base.py", line 439, in result return self.__get_result() File "/Users/kasingar/stuff/python/cpython/Lib/concurrent/futures/_base.py", line 388, in __get_result raise self._exception File "<console>", line 1, in <module> File "/Users/kasingar/stuff/python/cpython/Lib/asyncio/streams.py", line 52, in open_connection transport, _ = await loop.create_connection( File "/Users/kasingar/stuff/python/cpython/Lib/asyncio/base_events.py", line 1041, in create_connection sock, _, _ = await staggered.staggered_race( File "/Users/kasingar/stuff/python/cpython/Lib/asyncio/staggered.py", line 144, in staggered_race raise d.exception() File "/Users/kasingar/stuff/python/cpython/Lib/asyncio/staggered.py", line 86, in run_one_coro with contextlib.suppress(futures.TimeoutError): AttributeError: module 'asyncio.futures' has no attribute 'TimeoutError'

You are right. Hmm, I thought that Happy Eyeballs is better tested.

Is there a way this can be tested? I tried simulating OSError for IPv4 address and returning socket for ipv6 one like it resolves correctly. I guess that's the underlying idea of happy eyeballs but a test can be added for basic workflow since it lacks tests. @patch_socket def test_create_connection_happy_eyeballs_exception(self, sock_mock): async def getaddrinfo(*args, **kw): return [(2, 1, 6, '', ('127.0.0.1', 8000)), (2, 1, 6, '', ('::1', 8000, 0, 0)),] def getaddrinfo_task(*args, **kwds): return self.loop.create_task(getaddrinfo(*args, **kwds)) self.loop.getaddrinfo = getaddrinfo_task with mock.patch.object(self.loop, 'sock_connect', side_effect=[OSError, sock_mock]): coro = self.loop.create_connection(MyProto, host='localhost', port=8000, happy_eyeballs_delay=1) transport, _ = self.loop.run_until_complete(coro) transport.close()

The main problem of mock-based tests in asyncio is that the tests become unreliably very easy after mocked asyncio internal changes. I'm +0 on adding the proposed test. The better idea is serving on explicit AF_INET '127.0.0.1:<port>' address when the connection is established to AF_INET6 '[::1]:<port>'.

Sorry, I never got around writing a proper test for this so I am moving it to test needed if someone wants to volunteer for it. trio has some test cases for their happy eyeball implementation if it helps : https://github.com/python-trio/trio/blob/c5497c5ac4f6c457e3390c69cb8b5b62eca41979/trio/tests/test_highlevel_open_tcp_stream.py#L326