Crunching Python Insider — Major new features of the 3.10 series, compared to 3.9
Introduction
Crunching Python Insider goes through all the posts (since 1th Jan, 2021) published at the official Python blog (https://blog.python.org/) and explain what the announces really means and what are the benefits you can take out of the new features — with examples when possible — and what you need to worry about.
You will see this term a lot, PEP, but what is it?
It's a Python Enhancement Proposals, see it as documentation for all changes, adds, removals etc that happen in Python language or standard libraries.
Let's check what was announced
Link — https://blog.python.org/2021/01/python-3100a4-is-now-available-for.html
Publish date: Monday, January 4, 2021
This post talks about the most significant changes (up to the moment) that will be present at Python 3.10 -in Alpha phase-. Let's check one-by-one:
#1 PEP 623 — Remove wstr from Unicode
Back then, in PEP 393, some Unicode APIs got deprecated:
Now they will be removed completely from support.