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Entries tagged async in 2020

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datasette-ripgrep: deploy a regular expression search engine for your source code

This week I built datasette-ripgrep—a web application for running regular expression searches against source code, built on top of the amazing ripgrep command-line tool.

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6:51 am / 28th November 2020 / async, css, projects, python, datasette, weeknotes, ripgrep, bakeddata

The “await me maybe” pattern for Python asyncio

I’ve identified a pattern for handling potentially-asynchronous callback functions in Python which I’m calling the “await me maybe” pattern. It works by letting you return a value, a callable function that returns a value OR an awaitable function that returns that value.

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11:09 pm / 2nd September 2020 / async, patterns, plugins, python, datasette

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