Python 3.15 goes global with UTF-8 support

Today all the cool languages and runtimes pledge allegiance to UTF-8, including Rust, Go, and Node.js (JavaScript itself prefers UTF-16 for internal encoding). Most code editors, from Visual Studio ...
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Python 3.15 arrives with lazy imports, UTF-8 by default and a faster JIT

Python 3.15 is out with explicit lazy imports, UTF-8 as the default encoding, frozendict and sentinel types, the Tachyon ...

Python 3.15 released: Lazy imports, UTF-8 and new data types

Python 3.15 is expected to speed up some programs and simplifies handling immutable data. UTF-8 as standard requires testing.
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Python 3, ASCII, and UTF-8

The dreaded UnicodeDecodeError exception is one of the signature "features" of Python 3. It is raised when the language encounters a byte sequence that it cannot ...
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Python 3.15 Released With Experimental JIT Compiler Running Faster

Python 3.15 is out today as the newest annual feature release for the Python programming language. Python's JIT compiler is still in experimental form but it's a lot faster now with Python 3.15. The ...

First Steps in Building Apps with Codex: Practical Edition 4 (Video Editing with Python without Re-encoding)

This time, I thought about a Python server app. The theme is video editing without re-encoding.It is seasonal, but I often ...
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Data Prep for Machine Learning: Encoding

The demo is a Python language program but programmatic data encoding can be implemented using any language. The first five lines of the demo source data are: M 0.171429 eastern 0.802905 moderate F ...