In this series looking at features introduced by every version of Python 3, we continue our look at Python 3.9 by going through the notable changes in the standard library. These include concurrency improvements with changes to asyncio
, concurrent.futures
, and multiprocessing
; networking features with enhancements to ipaddress
, imaplib
, and socket
; and some additional OS features in os
and pathlib
.
This is the 20th of the 34 articles that currently make up the “Python 3 Releases” series, the first of which was What’s New in Python 3.0.
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