In this series looking at features introduced by every version of Python 3, we continue our look at the features added in Python 3.6. This second article looks at some more of the new features added to the language added in this release. These include a new secrets module, a new implementation of the dict object and better support for path-like objects.
This is the 13th of the 36 articles that currently make up the “Python 3 Releases” series, the first of which was What’s New in Python 3.0.
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In this series looking at features introduced by every version of Python 3, we now move on to look at new features added in Python 3.6. This first article looks at some of the most significant new features added to the language added in this release. These include a new string formatting method, type hinting on variables, and asynchronous generators and comprehensions.
This is the 12th of the 36 articles that currently make up the “Python 3 Releases” series, the first of which was What’s New in Python 3.0.
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In this series looking at features introduced by every version of Python 3, this is the fourth looking at Python 3.5. In it we look at the major updates to the standard library which were made in this release. These include various Internet protocol module enhancements, some asyncio features, and some restrictions on regular expression syntax have been lifted.
This is the 11th of the 36 articles that currently make up the “Python 3 Releases” series, the first of which was What’s New in Python 3.0.
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In this series looking at features introduced by every version of Python 3, this is the third looking at Python 3.5. In it we look at the remaining new syntax and some other language additions. These include a matrix multiplication operator, enhancements to argument unpacking and handling of StopIterator exceptions within generators.
This is the 10th of the 36 articles that currently make up the “Python 3 Releases” series, the first of which was What’s New in Python 3.0.
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In this series looking at features introduced by every version of Python 3, this is the second looking at Python 3.5. In it we examine another of the significant new features in this release, type hinting.
This is the 9th of the 36 articles that currently make up the “Python 3 Releases” series, the first of which was What’s New in Python 3.0.
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In this series looking at features introduced by every version of Python 3, this is the first looking at Python 3.5. In it we examine one of the major new improvements in this release, new syntax for coroutines.
This is the 8th of the 36 articles that currently make up the “Python 3 Releases” series, the first of which was What’s New in Python 3.0.
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In this series looking at features introduced by every version of Python 3, this one is the second of two covering release 3.4. We look at improvements to the way multiprocessing spawns child processes, various powerful new facilities for code instrospection, improvements to garbage collection, and a lot more besides.
This is the 7th of the 36 articles that currently make up the “Python 3 Releases” series, the first of which was What’s New in Python 3.0.
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In this series looking at features introduced by every version of Python 3, this one is the first of two covering release 3.4. We look at a universal install of the pip utility, improvements to handling codecs, and the addition of the asyncio and enum modules, among other things.
This is the 6th of the 36 articles that currently make up the “Python 3 Releases” series, the first of which was What’s New in Python 3.0.
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The second of my two articles covering features added in Python 3.3, this one talks about a large number of changes to the standard library, especially in network and OS modules. I also discuss implicit namespace packages, which are a bit niche but can be useful for maintaining large families of packages.
This is the 5th of the 36 articles that currently make up the “Python 3 Releases” series, the first of which was What’s New in Python 3.0.
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The fourth Python 3.x release brought another slew of great new features. So many, in fact, that I’ve split this release into two articles, of which this is the first. Highlights in this part include yield from expressions, mocking support in unittest and virtualenv suppport in the standard library.
This is the 4th of the 36 articles that currently make up the “Python 3 Releases” series, the first of which was What’s New in Python 3.0.
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