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Python 3.11.0 provides performance improvements that can speed up Python code by 10-60%, introduces new typing features to improve static type checking, and enhances error traceback messages to help debug issues more easily. The release benefits data scientists and engineers by improving Python's performance for data applications and making it easier to interpret and fix errors. While not directly focused on data science or engineering, the new features should help practitioners in these fields.

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Python 3.11.0 provides performance improvements that can speed up Python code by 10-60%, introduces new typing features to improve static type checking, and enhances error traceback messages to help debug issues more easily. The release benefits data scientists and engineers by improving Python's performance for data applications and making it easier to interpret and fix errors. While not directly focused on data science or engineering, the new features should help practitioners in these fields.

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Python 3.11.

0 is released — Impacts to
Data Science and Engineering
What are the Advantages of the new Release?

Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash

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.

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