On June 11, 2025, the Python core team released Python 3.13.5, the fifth maintenance update to the 3.13 line. This release is not about flashy new language features, instead, it addresses some ...

The aim of this project is to provide a Python 3.13 backport to Debian bookworm. Packages are of course much better manageable than compiling the source from scratch. In my opinion it is also more ...

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Python 3.11 introduced the Specializing Adaptive Interpreter. When the interpreter detects that some operations predictably involve the same types, those operations are “specialized.” The generic ...

Python 3.13 will release in September 2024. We added a passlib dependency to Python 3.13 recently in preparation for this release, per the upstream Python recommendation: However, there is some ...

Learn which Python standard library modules are headed for the boneyard in Python 3.13, and how to replace them. Python’s been around in one form or another for over 30 years. Over that time, it has ...