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Music for more information on Sean's work and where to find him. Lucas, welcome back to the show. Happy to be here.

Yeah, absolutely.

So we spoke roughly a year ago about the Python 313 release.

I guess what's new in your world since we've us spoke? Well, not much change in terms of my

employment. A lot has changed in Python and also as a release manager of Python. just a few days back, I released the last

Python version of my own. I've been a release manager for Python 38, which has been end

of life last year, and 3.9 that has just reached end of life with the end of October. So it's a bit of a milestone, I guess.

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