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I have long noted issues with Python 3’s bytes/str separation, which is designed to have a type “bytes” that is a simple list of 8-bit characters, and “str” which is a… (more…)

Trio is a new asynchronous I/O library for Python, with a focus on usability and correctness – the goal is to make it easy to get things right. (more…)

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