A majority of my career has been spent on building web services in Python. Specifically, internal ones that have minimal or no UIs, and speak REST (or at least are rest-ish). With each new service, I found myself re-implementing work to make user-friendly...

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Imagine that it takes 10 seconds to get data from the server. While you are waiting, the whole script is doing nothing. Asyncio allows to skip it and... (more…)

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Let’s say you are working on a project that needs to do web scraping but you don’t know websites on which scraping is to be… Read More »... (more…)