All credit to @askpatrickw that created this issue: https://github.com/Azure/msrest-for-python/issues/265 Let's make sure the linter tag it, so all SDK can update accordingly. I still see a lot of usage: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3AAzure%2Fazure-sdk-for-python%20asyncio.iscoroutinefunction&type=code