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by pistolpeteDK 1264 days ago
I don't think we'll see a version 4 for the next decade or so (because of the python3 debacle) - so it'll probably just be various improvements to the standard library.

There's a lot of improvements being made to Python on these minor versions. So while the version bump looks minor, they can make quite a big impact.

3.11 improved performance by 25-60% (depending on use-case). 3.12 is set to improve performance yet again (Special thanks to Mark Shannon, GvR and Microsoft). On top of that there's a lot of quality-of-life improvements for the various parts of the std.lib.

I like this apporach very much, since upgrading to a new minor Python version is somewhat trivial

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Performance improvements without changes to the interface seems like it should have been 3.11.1; were there other changes?