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A More Powerful Python Library Than Requests: Double Your Web Scraping Efficiency!

A More Powerful Python Library Than Requests: Double Your Web Scraping Efficiency!

Learn how asynchronous coroutines in Python can boost your backend project’s efficiency, reducing HTTP request time by up to 73% with the httpx library.

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Meng Li
Sep 05, 2024
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Recently, our company started refactoring a Python backend project, converting most of the backend logic to use asynchronous coroutines.

Looking at the code filled with async and await (the way coroutines are implemented in Python), I felt completely lost and overwhelmed.

Although I had a basic understanding of coroutines, I hadn’t explored them deeply. This project seemed like the perfect chance to learn more.

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