I'm against making magic "unicode" strings with unspecified encoding and then forcing everything to use these strings. The idea behind “Unicode” strings is that they are not encoded at all (so much ...

The Python string object isn’t that different from those encountered in other languages, but there are some differences that might puzzle you if you are familiar with other languages. It starts out ...

Python 3.15.0 is available. The new major version of the programming language was released on October 9, 2026, and brings changes to the language, the CPython reference interpreter, and the standard ...

LWN is still Python 2. The last dependency just moved forward a month or two ago, so all that's needed is a bit of time to make the switch. That "bit of time" part can be surprisingly hard, though. So ...