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Blocking I/O in async handler

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Review this Python asyncio handler.

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1import requests
2 
3async def fetch_prices(symbols):
4 out = {}
5 for s in symbols:
6 resp = requests.get(f"https://api.example.com/price/{s}") # blocking
7 out[s] = resp.json()["price"]
8 return out
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