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Python 3.12.0a4Release Date: Jan. 10, 2023
This is an early developer preview of Python 3.12.
Major new features of the 3.12 series, compared to 3.11Python 3.12 is still in development. This release, 3.12.0a4 is the fourth of seven planned alpha releases.
Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of new features and bug fixes and to test the release process.
During the alpha phase, features may be added up until the start of the beta phase (2023-05-08) and, if necessary, may be modified or deleted up until the release candidate phase (2023-07-31). Please keep in mind that this is a preview release and its use is not recommended for production environments.
Many new features for Python 3.12 are still being planned and written. Among the new major new features and changes so far:
perf
profiler to report Python function names in traces.wstr
and wstr_length
members of the C implementation of unicode objects were removed, per PEP 623.unittest
module, a number of long deprecated methods and classes were removed. (They had been deprecated since Python 3.1 or 3.2).smtpd
and distutils
modules have been removed (see PEP 594 and PEP 632. The setuptools
package (installed by default in virtualenvs and many other places) continues to provide the distutils
module.SyntaxWarning
instead of DeprecationWarning
, making them more visible. (They will become syntax errors in the future.)For more details on the changes to Python 3.12, see What's new in Python 3.12. The next pre-release of Python 3.12 will be 3.12.0a5, currently scheduled for 2023-02-06.
More resourcesTwo haikus, apt as Python's development springs ever forward.
I write, erase, rewrite
Erase again, and then
A poppy blooms.
Haiku by Katsushika Hokusai.
O snail
Climb Mount Fuji,
But slowly, slowly!
Haiku by Kobayashi Issa.
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