Python 3.15 is expected to speed up some programs and simplifies handling immutable data. UTF-8 as standard requires testing.

It it now time to look at grouping bits together to form bytes. Python is unusual in that it can represent a bit pattern of arbitrary length using its bignum data type. Most other languages have to ...

The proposal to add a more general facility for string formatting to Python, which we looked at in August 2024, has changed a great deal since, so it merits another look. The changes take multiple ...