The development team behind Python 3.11, the most recent version of the programming language, believes it may be the finest one yet.
Along with team members Steve Dower and Ned Deily, Python Steering Council member and release manager Pablo Galindo Salgado stated in the release notes(opens in new tab) that the team “spent a lot of effort into producing 3.11 the best version of Python possible.”
Along with numerous typing enhancements, they also noted the important features of Python 3.11: “improved tracebacks,” “faster Python,” “exception groups and except*.”
The newest Python 3.11 improvements
According to the Python release team’s release notes, Python 3.11 “is up to 10-60 percent quicker than Python 3.10,” and the Faster CPython Project reported measurable speedups of 1.22x on average (opens in new tab).
Even if Python has never been the quickest programming language out there and this probably just relates to pure Python programmes, that’s still outstanding.
More tangible quality of life enhancements are promised by a number of Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs).
PEP 657(opens in new tab), for instance, would add more thorough error reports for tracebacks, which are reports of function calls made by a python script. This will make debugging much easier. In contrast, PEP 680(opens in new tab)allows Python to parse TOML files, which are frequently used as configuration files, without the necessity of an external library.
The Python team has provided an opt-out in the form of “PYTHONNODEBUGRANGES,” a new environmental variable, despite the fact that PYC files generated by the Python interpreter are now, on average, 22% larger, as The Register(opens in new tab) writes.
On the other hand, PEP 654(opens in new tab) introduces exception groups and a new except* syntax that enable processing several exceptions simultaneously.
Thanks to several new capabilities and some subtle modifications that allow developers more flexibility in the backend, Python 3.11 should also encourage developers to use data types more frequently.
PEP 675(opens in new tab), which enables users to specify arbitrary string types, may serve as the finest example of this, but PEP 673(opens in new tab) (the Self Type) provides a simple technique for annotating methods that return instances of the same class. Last but not least, PEP 646 (Variadic Generics) enables generics to simultaneously hold several types for eventual assignment to objects.
