Python 3.11 released

[Posted October 24, 2022 by corbet]

Version 3.11.0 of the Python language has been released. "In the CPython release team, we have put a lot of effort into making 3.11 the best version of Python possible. Better tracebacks, faster Python, exception groups and except*, typing improvements and much more." Among other things, this release claims a 1.22x speedup on the standard benchmark suite thanks to the Faster CPython work.

And now for something completely different (was: Python 3.11 released)

Posted Oct 25, 2022 6:01 UTC (Tue) by tlamp (subscriber, #108540) [Link] (5 responses)

It seems its tradition to randomly drop an unsolicited physics/mathematic information nugget in there, at least 3.10.0 had one too[0].

Has anybody any background on that, I mean, it is surely interesting, but to me, it came quite unexpected (never read a Python release announcement on discuss.python.org before). FWIW, their slightly more official looking blog post contains it too[1], so what's up with that?

[0]: https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-10-0-is-now-availab...
[1]: https://blog.python.org/2022/10/python-3110-is-now-availa...

And now for something completely different (was: Python 3.11 released)

Posted Oct 25, 2022 6:45 UTC (Tue) by vstinner (subscriber, #42675) [Link] (3 responses)

The Python 3.10 and 3.11 release manager is a doctor in physics.

And now for something completely different (was: Python 3.11 released)

Posted Oct 25, 2022 11:17 UTC (Tue) by gerdesj (subscriber, #5446) [Link] (1 responses)

"And now for something completely different"

I rather like it and the heading is a complete give away. Certainly livens up the usual boring old change log and you can skip it with no loss of functionality.

And now for something completely different (was: Python 3.11 released)

Posted Oct 26, 2022 9:36 UTC (Wed) by rnestler (subscriber, #160299) [Link]

> "And now for something completely different"

It's also a reference to the Monty Python movie with the same title: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Now_for_Something_Compl...

And now for something completely different (was: Python 3.11 released)

Posted Oct 25, 2022 13:47 UTC (Tue) by atai (subscriber, #10977) [Link]

It takes a rocket scientist to release new Python

And now for something completely different (was: Python 3.11 released)

Posted Oct 25, 2022 12:58 UTC (Tue) by PhilippeRoussel (subscriber, #23227) [Link]

Something to do with the origins of Python's name maybe ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlCbFu5dpc8

Python 3.11 released

Posted Oct 28, 2022 5:56 UTC (Fri) by LightDot (guest, #73140) [Link]

"Python 3.11 released"

Python 95 coming up next!