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#341 – Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Python Web Clients and Parallel IO

There are a couple of different ways you can handle parallel IO and this happens sort of at an architectural level in operating systems as well like windows prefers to do it one way or the other. There's always endless debate about which approach is more efficient and which approach ismore error prone where I just have a whole bunch of stacks in front of me. The task-based model where each task has a bunch of logic we had mechanisms in the Python language that we could easily reuse for that, he says.

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