Python 3.7 Released With C API For Thread-Local Storage, Data Classes, Context Variables

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Python 3.7 Released With C API For Thread-Local Storage, Data Classes, Context Variables

Python 3.7 is now available as the latest major release to Python 3 with new features, performance optimizations, and other enhancements...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Python-3.7-Released

[boltronics]

I'll be very interested to try out breakpoint() when my distribution gets the update. Sounds neat.

[FireBurn]

We're up to Python 3.7 now and we still haven't purged 2.7 from everything yet

[uid313]

My biggest gripe with Python is that the standard library does not have any asynchronous HTTP client. 😢

[Hi-Angel]

I see lots of optimizations here and there all over the changelog. It's moderately satisfying to think of it, given I use Qutebrowser, which is a python interface around qt-webengine.

[caligula]

We're up to Python 3.7 now and we still haven't purged 2.7 from everything yet

Many companies are stuck with Python 2 and many developers think it's better at handling low level byte data.

[vegabook]

Many companies are stuck with Python 2 and many developers think it's better at handling low level byte data.

Said companies include Google. And if you've ever done cross-boundary stuff such as using zeromq, calling a bytes API, or calling C, Unicode-by-default is pure hell.

Funnily enough, though 2.x pip downloads are declinging relative to 3, they are still to this day higher than 3.x in the Numerical Python community. So 2.7 is not going away anytime soon.

Here is the data:

month py2pip py3pip
1 2016-01 754785 162589
2 2016-02 2429183 518441
3 2016-03 473050 104225
4 2016-05 1108503 249627
5 2016-06 3460566 744557
6 2016-07 3777775 736221
7 2016-08 3772339 926367
8 2016-09 3418681 951603
9 2016-10 3963772 1242959
10 2016-11 4210267 1163311
11 2016-12 3901717 1115862
12 2017-01 4381947 1411295
13 2017-02 4367254 1596966
14 2017-03 5989363 2055947
15 2017-04 5884109 2116833
16 2017-05 6713310 2234050
17 2017-06 8383859 2686225
18 2017-07 8418105 3028983
19 2017-08 7397053 3231351
20 2017-09 6634032 3212955
21 2017-10 7651790 3916238
22 2017-11 8805290 3212670
23 2017-12 6879320 3509196
24 2018-01 7074179 3776558
25 2018-02 7320313 3376908
26 2018-03 5453308 3240535
27 2018-04 5539154 3629259
28 2018-05 4903729 3825077
29 2018-06 3794980 3715831

Instructions for replicating this can be found here:

http://www.randalolson.com/2016/09/0...-pip-installs/

be careful to extend the end date date to the present

[PluMGMK]

I see lots of optimizations here and there all over the changelog. It's moderately satisfying to think of it, given I use Qutebrowser, which is a python interface around qt-webengine.

Or QtWebKit if you prefer (as I do).

[Zan Lynx]

My biggest gripe with Python is that the standard library does not have any asynchronous HTTP client. 😢

Python's standard library has suffered from some bad ideas. I'm happy that they don't try to stick everything in there because once in it's hard to rip it out and has to sit in there for years, actively harming the community because people think they're supposed to use it.

Just use any of the asynchronous client modules that are out there already.

[Hi-Angel]

Or QtWebKit if you prefer (as I do).

Why do you? I benchmarked both engines of Qutebrowser, and (unsurprisingly perhaps) webengine is faster.