Anthony Shaw :python:

#Python, Cloud and OSS at Microsoft. Author of "CPython Internals". x3 Father, Christian, PSF Fellow, Adjunct Fellow at Macquarie University

Blog: https://tonybaloney.github.io
GitHub: https://github.com/tonybaloney

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2025-09-02 06:42:02 UTC

✍️New Post ✍️
Python's async support is 10 years old this year. Python 3.14 has "proper" parallelism now -- free-threading and subinterpreter pool workers, so does that make async redundant? I look into the use cases and challenges of asyncio.
https://tonybaloney.github.io/posts/why-isnt-python-async-more-popular.html

2025-07-26 21:52:18 UTC

Sudoku is limited by 1-9 (3^2) cells 😢
You know what is more fun? 4^2 cells!
Introducing Sudoxu— Hexadecimal Sudoku. Try easy mode to see if you can get the full combos before attempting harder modes.
https://tonybaloney.github.io/Sudoxu/
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2025-03-03 08:27:17 UTC

Basically.
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2024-10-30 05:25:01 UTC

Did you know there’s a static web server built into Python?
python -m http.server
Run from the folder with your web app. No dependencies 👍 #python
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2024-10-24 09:26:52 UTC

Will Python get LTS releases? Seems to be a resounding no from the maintainers…
https://discuss.python.org/t/python-lts-and-maintenance-cycles/68277/62

2024-08-23 09:35:25 UTC

Thank you for including the date whichever Python engineer left this comment. Also, if the todo has been there 21 years, maybe it’s not getting done 🤷🏻‍♂️
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