How to await a coroutine in pdb

I had a similar problem debugging the useage of aiofile. I then found a solution using nest_asyncio. For example if one has the following async example script:

import asyncio
from aiofile import async_open
import nest_asyncio


async def main():
    async with async_open("/tmp/hello.txt", 'w+') as afp:
        await afp.write("Hello ")
        await afp.write("world")
        afp.seek(0)
        breakpoint()
        print(await afp.read())


if __name__=="__main__":
    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
    nest_asyncio.apply(loop)
    loop.run_until_complete(main())

One can then do:

-> print(await afp.read())
(Pdb) loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
(Pdb) loop.run_until_complete(afp.read())
'Hello world'
(Pdb) 

Admittedly it is a bit more tedious then await asyncpg.fetch("select * from foo;") or await afp.read() but it gets the job done. Hopefully a more elegant solution will come up in the future.