I don't think that the bug comes from asyncio, but it looks like a bug in the implementation of "yield from" in CPython directly! Try with ceval.patch. ceval.c has a fast path if the object is a generator. With PYTHONASYNCIODEBUG=1, the object is a CoroWrapper, not a generator. In this case, the slow path is used: retval = _PyObject_CallMethodId(reciever, &PyId_send, "O", v); This line comes from the initial commit introducing yield-from: --- changeset: 74356:d64ac9ab4cd0 user: Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com> date: Fri Jan 13 21:43:40 2012 +1000 files: Doc/library/dis.rst Doc/library/exceptions.rst Doc/reference/expressions.rst Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst Doc/whatsnew/3. description: Implement PEP 380 - 'yield from' (closes #11682) --- (The exact line changed and the line was moved, but "O" format didn't change.) Still no unit test, I'm too tired to write one, and I'm not sure that it's a bug in ceval.c.