Python 3.11.
0 is released — Impacts to
Data Science and Engineering
What are the Advantages of the new Release?
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With Python 3.11.0 a new major release of the Python programming
language has been published. It contains many new features and
optimizations.
The question is what are the benefits for programmers and
entrepreneurs in the field of Data Science and Data Engineers — let’s
take a look!
Better Performance
Python would be categorized as a slow language. For example, a
regular loop in Python is orders of magnitude slower than a similar
loop in C. The new release and the Faster CPython Project is already
yielding some exciting results. Python 3.11 is up to 10–60% faster
than Python 3.10[1]. I think this improvement should please
everyone and also users in the field of data — better performance is
always a good thing in the field of Big Data.
Typing and Typing Language Changes
Python is a dynamically typed language, but it also supports static
typing. There are now five new typing-related PEPs in this release
for Python 3.11.0 [1][2]:
PEP 646: Variadic generics
PEP 655: Marking individual TypedDict items as required or
potentially missing
PEP 673: Self type
PEP 675: Arbitrary literal string type
PEP 681: Data class transforms
Better Error Tracebacks
With better Error Tracebacks you can now better interpret the
traceback that’s displayed when Python encounters an error. This is
useful for especially new Python users. Like also in Python 3.10,
Python’s error messages were greatly improved, with Python 3.11’s
most anticipated features will also make life easier. Decorative
annotations are added to the tracebacks which can help you
interpret an error message more quickly [2].
Example of Error Tracebacks in Python — Image Source: Python.org[3]
Summary
So these are some of the new features that Python 3.11.0 brings and
which I find particularly interesting. All the rest can be found here
on the official site.
Python Release Python 3.11.0
Release Date: Oct. 24, 2022 Python 3.11.0 is the newest major release of the
Python programming language, and it…
www.python.org
Without explicitly improving Data Science or Data Engineering, it
has to be said that these new features should help everyone,
including people who work in the field of data. To take advantage of
these benefits, you or your colleagues from IT should quickly update
to the new release.