Python 3.15 released: Lazy imports, UTF-8 and new data types

Python 3.15 is expected to speed up some programs and simplifies handling immutable data. UTF-8 as standard requires testing.

Python Learning Diary Day 60 - Handling None Returns When No Match Is Found

This article is a learning record for Python learners, and the posted code is a sample for educational purposes.What I did ...
HackerNoon

Why Python Dictionaries Crash When You Add or Delete Keys While Looping

Learn why Python raises "dictionary changed size during iteration," how it differs from list mutation, and three safe ways to ...
linuxiac

Python 3.15 Released with Faster JIT, Lazy Imports, and UTF-8 by Default

Python 3.15 introduces lazy imports, UTF-8 as the default encoding, faster experimental JIT performance, and new profiling ...

Organizing duplicate document names in Python. Keeping the original order

In a memo listing document names, "Estimate" appears many times. You want to combine them into one, but you don't want to ...
University of Vermont

A brief introduction to databases with SQLite

We have seen how to read data from a file, either in unstructured text or CSV format, and how to write data in these formats. We’ve also seen how to read and write JSON. In this chapter we’ll see how ...
InfoWorld

Why it’s so hard to create stand-alone Python apps

If Python developers have one consistent gripe about their beloved language, it tends to be this: Why is it so hard to take a Python program and deploy it as a standalone artifact, the way C, C++, ...
XDA Developers

Claude just turned Python from confusing into actually intuitive with one feature

Judy is an author at XDA with over a decade of experience writing about digital media. She's written for some of the largest names such as MakeUseOf, Android Central, Android Police. She always has an ...
The New Yorker

Is the Dictionary Done For?

Once, every middle-class home had a piano and a dictionary. The purpose of the piano was to be able to listen to music before phonographs were available and affordable. Later on, it was to torture ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These Linguists Are Creating a New Dictionary of Ancient Celtic Languages—With Help From ‘Curse Tablets’ and Roman Records

Researchers say they are compiling the first-ever dictionary of ancient Celtic languages in Britain and Ireland. Led by Simon Rodway, a linguist at Aberystwyth University in Wales, the project aims to ...
NPR

How ancient curses are helping create a Celtic dictionary

There are more than half a million words in the Oxford English Dictionary. Some trace their origin as far back as the 11th century. For centuries, linguists and academics have kept careful track of ...
LWN.net

A "frozen" dictionary for Python

The idea is fairly straightforward: add frozendict as a new immutable type to the language's builtins module. As Stinner put it: We expect frozendict to be safe by design, as it prevents any ...