In this series looking at features introduced by every version of Python 3, this one is the second of two covering release 3.4. We look at improvements to the way multiprocessing spawns child processes, various powerful new facilities for code instrospection, improvements to garbage collection, and a lot more besides.
This is the 7th of the 32 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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Another installment in my look at all the new features added to Python in each 3.x release, this one covering 3.2. There’s a lot covered including the argparse module, support for futures, changes to the GIL implementation, SNI support in SSL/TLS, and much more besides. This is my longest article ever by far! If you’re puzzled why I’m looking at releases that are years old, check out the first post in the series.
This is the 3rd of the 32 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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I recently had to do a few not-quite-trivial things with the Jinja2 templating engine, and the more I use it the more I like it.
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