The latest version of Python is "the best ever", say devs

Date:
Wed, 26 Oct 2022 20:31:40 +0000

Description:
Python 3.11 is now faster and even easier to develop for, but theres a catch.

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The latest version of the programming language Python, 3.11 has been
unveiled, with its development team claiming that the new edition might just be the best yet.

In the release notes , Pablo Galindo Salgado, Python Steering Council member and the release manager for the current version, alongside fellow team
members Steve Dower and Ned Deily, wrote the team has put a lot of effort
into making 3.11 the best version of Python possible.

They also listed the keynote improvements in Python 3.11: better tracebacks, faster Python, exception groups and except*, in addition to offering various improvements to typing. Python 3.11's latest improvements

The Python release team claimed in the release notes that Python 3.11 is up
to 10-60 percent faster than Python 3.10, and reported measuring 1.22x speedups on average, courtesy of the Faster CPython Project .

Though it is worth pointing out this likely only applies to pure Python code, and Python itself has never been the fastest programming language out there, thats still impressive.

Several Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs) promise to offer more concrete quality of life improvements.

PEP 657 , for example, will introduce more detailed error reports for tracebacks - reports detailing function calls within a python script, making debugging that much more straightforward. PEP 680 , meanwhile, means that Python will be able to parse TOML files, commonly used for configuration
files without the need for an external library.

However, as The Register reports, PYC files compiled by the Python
interpreter are now, on average, 22% larger, and while the Python team stand by the change, they have issued an opt-out, in the form of PYTHONNODEBUGRANGES, a new environmental variable.

PEP 654 , on the other hand, allows for handling several exceptions at once with the introduction of exception groups and the new except* syntax. READ MORE

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Python 3.11 should also encourage developers to use data types more, thanks
to some new features, and more subtle changes that give developers more control in the backend.

Perhaps the best illustration of this is PEP 675 , which allows users to declare arbitrary string types, but theres also PEP 673 (the Self Type), an intuitive way to annotate methods that return instances of the same class. Finally, PEP 646 (Variadic Generics), allowing generics to store several
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