The official chain coroutine example is like this

import asyncio

async def compute(x, y):
    print("Compute %s + %s ..." % (x, y))
    await asyncio.sleep(1.0)
    return x + y

async def print_sum(x, y):
    result = await compute(x, y)
    print("%s + %s = %s" % (x, y, result))
                
loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(print_sum(1, 2))
loop.close()

async equivalent to @acyncio.coroutine

Obviously the author's method cannot achieve chain coroutine, because the cofunction has to complete the work and cannot have a yield
But it can be done like this

#!/usr/bin/env python3.5

import sqlite3
import myslice
import json
import asyncio

conn = sqlite3.connect('db.sqlite')
cursor = conn.cursor()

@asyncio.coroutine
def user():
    ret = []
    cursor.execute("SELECT user_id, config, password from user")
    for row in cursor:
        item = row[0], json.loads(row[1]), row[2]
        ret.append(item)
    return ret

@asyncio.coroutine
def account():
    item = await user()
    user_id = item[0]
    # print(user_id)
    # c = yield cursor.execute("SELECT config from account WHERE user_id=%s" %(user_id,))
    # print(c)

def main():
    loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
    loop.run_until_complete(account())