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

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Python 3.4 Synchronous IO

The Python standard library had a brief period where there was lots of development and I think it was late 90s maybe early 2000s. Two little modules were added that were the state of the art of doing asynchronous IO or sort of non-blocking IO which means that you can keep multiple network connections open in parallel like a typical web server does. The big thing that distracted me was actually type annotations but other people kept it alive and kicking and it's been quite successful Actually yeah in the time I was very much involved with that I was like the lead architect.

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