From 53dbc57ba3236f669667463d5240e5916478d03b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jake <73198594+jaborsh@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2026 21:57:28 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] taskhandler: check task membership directly

---
 evennia/scripts/taskhandler.py | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/evennia/scripts/taskhandler.py b/evennia/scripts/taskhandler.py
index d119506871..0a3e6174a2 100644
--- a/evennia/scripts/taskhandler.py
+++ b/evennia/scripts/taskhandler.py
@@ -388,9 +388,8 @@ class TaskHandler:
         delta = timedelta(seconds=timedelay)
         comp_time = now + delta
         # get an open task id
-        used_ids = list(self.tasks.keys())
         task_id = 1
-        while task_id in used_ids:
+        while task_id in self.tasks:
             task_id += 1
 
         # record the task to the tasks dictionary