Python 3.11.0 Released (python.org)

Nice to finally have TOML support in the stdlib, especially considering pip's dependence on it.

There’s a nice article with some code examples here of the new features: https://realpython.com/python311-new-features

Now if only Azure Functions would support Python versions newer than 3.9!

Come on Microsoft!

> and it will experience repulsive gravity that will push it back to the original region, but then it will experience the pull from the singularity again and will repeat this process forever.

If the observer had a charge, wouldn't this create radio waves, bleeding off energy?

"What’s New In Python 3.11" https://docs.python.org/3.11/whatsnew/3.11.html

I've been really looking forward to the variadic generics. ML and data code is full of types like "FloatTensor" and "DataFrame" which really don't narrow things down. Hopefully this will make its way into the ecosystem asap.

Those new error messages look divine compared to what we've had up until now! They seem like they might have been inspired by Rust's error message format to me, but I'm not sure. I'm just happy that I won't have to split chained operations onto individual lines anymore just to have any ability to debug them with the regular old stacktrace errors.

I thought not all features were available in 3.10 yet

Looking forward to the 1.22x speedup! Been using Nim for a lot of those types of use cases personally.

I sure do hope Arbitrary Literal String Type (https://peps.python.org/pep-0675/) solves the problem they think it does and doesn't drive every typechecker in the world stark-raving mad

    literal_name: LiteralString
    expect_literal_string(f"hello {literal_name}")
    # OK because it is composed from literal strings.

Maybe I'm being too cynical and this is laying the groundwork for py4000 where they will type check at runtime

I was looking forward this release. The performance improvements in this release are insane! I just created a ticket for my team to upgrade all our production Pythons to this release.

This release sent me down a rabbit hole (it started with the sidenote on physics), which made me wonder what software https://discuss.python.org is running on. I couldn't find a link to GitHub or elsewhere or any project page which could enable me to host such a discussion board on a server. Does it have a name?

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For anyone who finds this thread later, it seems that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33327896 overtook it (216 comments as of right now)