What's up in the Python community? – April 2023
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What's up in the Python community? – April 2023
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Re: What's up in the Python community? – April 2023
#2This is a nice summary! Subscribed.
Re: What's up in the Python community? – April 2023
#3I never saw this newsletter before but I must say I am impressed. Fantastic approach to writing style and a great showcase of domain knowledge.
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Re: What's up in the Python community? – April 2023
#4> Python 3.12 improves the language perf by 4%
A bit shy of the original target of 50% improvement per release, totaling 5x speedup across four releases. Hope it catches up in the next couple releases.
Re: What's up in the Python community? – April 2023
#5Question from a beginner: I'm deploying a python project to aws (beanstalk + lambda, among others), and I've noticed I can only use python versions 3.9 and 3.8. Why is that? Is 3.10 not considered stable?
Re: What's up in the Python community? – April 2023
#6Question from a beginner: I'm deploying a python project to aws (beanstalk + lambda, among others), and I've noticed I can only use python versions 3.9 and 3.8. Why is that? Is 3.10 not considered stable?
I don't know why it is, but 3.10 and 3.11 are considered stable (and I would suggest you use 3.11 if you can).
Re: What's up in the Python community? – April 2023
#7Question from a beginner: I'm deploying a python project to aws (beanstalk + lambda, among others), and I've noticed I can only use python versions 3.9 and 3.8. Why is that? Is 3.10 not considered stable?
Cloud providers tend to be pretty slow to provide up to date software versions, I wouldn't rely on them to signal what versions are stable
I'm personally watching https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1191155/... because Sidekiq 7 requires at least Redis 6.2, but Azure Cache decided only major version upgrades matter
This should give you a better idea of Python version status: https://devguide.python.org/versions
Re: What's up in the Python community? – April 2023
#8I was browsing the most popular pip packages recently and was also downright shocked how much AI stuff is up at the top. I will be very curious if much of these things are still popular or relevant in a year.
Re: What's up in the Python community? – April 2023
#9> Python 3.12 improves the language perf by 4% A bit shy of the original target of 50% improvement per release, totaling 5x speedup across four releases. Hope it catches up in the next couple releases.
Python 3.12 also does not exist, because it has not been finished and released yet. So there's time.
Re: What's up in the Python community? – April 2023
#10Question from a beginner: I'm deploying a python project to aws (beanstalk + lambda, among others), and I've noticed I can only use python versions 3.9 and 3.8. Why is that? Is 3.10 not considered stable?
It’s that a lot of the libraries take a while to catch up.
3.10 is pretty good to use lately with PyTorch and numpy, which I mention because they are usually the main stragglers I have to track. They are both compiled with your friendly local architecture’s stack.
Pydantic and FastAPI almost fell over because of changes to annotation handling, but woosh. That drama was forestalled.
I think the python 3.3+ series has confused a lot of people because major version improvements have been crammed into the process.
Guido, if you’re reading, we should have just gone to 4 when we changed so many things. I get why we were hesitant of versioning after the str/unicode upgrade broke everyone, but like…
There are versions of 3 that we had to almost immediately deprecate. The javascript community is probably laughing at us.