Analyze and debug Python utilities
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You are given a snippet where a Python helper class repeatedly reads from an HTTP response stream and writes output. (
- Infer and articulate the helper class’s purpose and responsibilities; (
- Debug a piece of asynchronous Python code that fetches multiple URLs concurrently—identify race conditions, blocking calls in the event loop, and un-awaited coroutines, then propose fixes; (
- Implement list_matching_paths(root, pattern) that returns absolute paths of all files under root matching a glob or regex pattern; (
- Read a large CSV safely (dialect, encoding, streaming) and compute simple aggregates with attention to memory and error handling.
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