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Python has had async for 10 years – why isn't it more popular?

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320 points willm | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 17:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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silverwind ◴[02 Sep 25 17:46 UTC] No.45106541[source]▶
I think Python needs a good `fetch`-like async http client in the stdlib.
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rcarmo ◴[02 Sep 25 17:47 UTC] No.45106560[source]▶
I personally recommend aiohttp. Setting up a ClientSession and letting it do its thing is quite nice.
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1. operator-name ◴[02 Sep 25 20:23 UTC] No.45108504[source]▶
httpx also supports sync and async, but I remember seeing an issue in their repo about worse performance than aiohttp.