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PyGObject, the #Python bindings for #GTK, have recently merged support for asynchronous programming, closing an orthogonality gap between Python's async support and GTK having been single-threaded / event based since forever: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pygobje…
This ends a decade of using projects such as gbulb that kindly bridged that gap.

asyncio integration with support to await Gio async functions (!189) · Merge requests · GNOME / pygobject · GitLab

This adds a simple asyncio event loop integration for GLib that only works on unix. For a comparison with other integrations, see
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in reply to chrysn

Dan Yeaw
Dan Yeaw
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I'm not sure he is on the fediverse, but huge kudos to long time GNOME contributor Benjamin Berg for this. This is such an amazing gift that he has worked on for the last couple of years and it really levels up PyGObject. 🤩 #Python #GNOME
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