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News from the Python World: Big Updates, Essential 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9 Changes

Written by Michał Słupski | Apr 10, 2020 11:11:00 AM

We like to keep up to date with what’s going on in the Python ecosystem. Today, we’ll be sharing with you some of the most important Python news from the past few months.

New versions of Python semantics provide a lot of shortcuts, and learning about them can only make your code better. As the language evolves, it can do more and provide better performance. The sooner you learn how to update your code to take advantage of Python’s technological improvements, the better for you and your team.

In this article, we will analyze the essential changes and new features that come with Python 3.7, 3.8, and 3.9. 

Before we get into it, we’ll also take a very quick look at changes in the Python ecosystem, because there have been several developments that affect the whole Python community.

We’ve included a quick recap of Python basics in the first part of this article. If you don’t need it, you can go straight to “Key news from the Python ecosystem”.