alt Hacker NewsYou mentioned two biggies, but also the GIL removal, async, performance improvements, f-string, walrus, fast dicts w. merge ops, data classes, pattern matching, friendlier repl, and hundreds of smaller yearly improvements.
You mentioned two biggies, but also the GIL removal, async, performance improvements, f-string, walrus, fast dicts w. merge ops, data classes, pattern matching, friendlier repl, and hundreds of smaller yearly improvements.
Pattern matching? Nice, I'd managed to miss that one completely, as well as the fact that Python had introduced dictionary-merging (according to a quick search, Python 3.9 introduced the | (pipe) operator for dict unions). I did know about the others you mentioned, but couldn't call them to mind when writing my comment.
But reading through a Python script that I had Claude Code write for me taught me another one: apparently there's now a / operator on strings, because Claude wrote `path = "some" / "dir" / "filename.txt"` without importing anything outside of the stdlib. I presume it is shorthand for calling os.path.join and will therefore apply the correct path separator on Linux vs Windows.