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if `Output.apply()` takes an async function as well, that might be the right thing? I'm not sure it can

Yes - it can. Specifically the function returned from the callback passed to `apply` can return a Future and it will be awaited as part of resolving the Output. 

does it have to be a `Future` or any awaitable?

(does this have to do with the thing where pulumi does bad things with non-Future awaitables?)

Any awaitable. 

See specifically <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/blob/master/sdk/python/lib/pulumi/output.py#L41>

And: <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/blob/master/sdk/python/lib/pulumi/output.py#L102>

oh cool! I've had the problem where python will yell because pulumi will `await` on stuff more than once, which breaks with bare `coroutine`s (but not `Future`s based on them)