Python 3.15 goes global with UTF-8 support
14-10-2026 14:00 via theregister.com

Python 3.15 goes global with UTF-8 support

After a week’s delay, the new version of Python, v3.15, has been released. With it comes a proper profiler, an experimental just-in-time compiler, and a tightening of dictionary structures. It also offers a time-saving Lazy Import option for programs to not load modules until needed, the implementation of which ironically halted this release until a few last-minute regressions were sorted. But of all these new delicacies spread before the Pythonistas, the data wranglers of the bunch may mo
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