On Friday, more than a year after python 3.5, core developers Elvis Pranskevichus and Yury Selivanov announced the release of version 3.6
. An anonymous reader writes:
InfoWorld describes the changes
as async
in more places, speed and memory usage improvements, and pluggable support for JITs, tracers, and debuggers. "Python 3.6 also provides support for DTrace and SystemTap, brings a secrets module
to the standard library [to generate authentication tokens], introduces new string
and number
formats, and adds type annotations
for variables. It also gives us easier methods to customize the creation of subclasses."
You can read Slashdot's interview with Python creator Guido van Rossum from 2013. I also remember an interview this July where Perl creator Larry Wall called Python " a pretty okay first language , with a tendency towards style enforcement, monoculture, and group-think...more interested in giving you one adequate way to do something than it is in giving you a workshop that you, the programmer, get to choose the best tool from." Anyone want to share their thoughts today about the future of Python?