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This September, twenty-nine core committers arrived at Microsoft’s main campus in Redmond, Washington, USA for the now-annual core developer sprints. These are an opportunity for the core team to have focused discussions, in-depth conversations and work free from interruption for five days. By the end of the week, thirty-one core developers went home tired but satisfied. The major sponsor of the sprints this year was the Python Software Foundation. Microsoft provided the venue and some events during the week, and Facebook, Microsoft, Google, LinkedIn, Bloomberg, and a number of small companies covered their employees’ expenses. Major Achievements With over thirty people working for a week, there were many achievements and improvements made for Python 3.8 and earlier versions. Some of the highlights include: The asyncio documentation was completely rewritten Most of PEP 572 (assignment expressions) was implemented and tested Recursive tracebacks and syntax errors in f-strings were impro...