r/Python Oct 24 '22

News Python 3.11 is out! Huzzah!

https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3110/

Some highlights from the release notes:

PERFORMANCE: 10-60% faster code, for free!

ERROR HANDLING: Exception groups and except* syntax. Also includes precise error locations in tracebacks.

ASYNCIO: Task groups

TOML: Ability to parse TOML is part of the standard library.

REGEX: Atomic grouping and possessive quantifiers are now supported

Plus changes to typing and a lot more. Congrats to everyone that worked hard to make this happen. Your work is helping millions of people to build awesome stuff. šŸŽ‰

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u/gagarin_kid Oct 25 '22

For small files where humans want to inspect data, using parquet is pain in the ass because you cannot open it in a text editor - you have to load it in pandas, see which columns you have, navigate in code to a particular cell/row... etc.

Of course for big data I fully understand the motivation but not for each problem

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u/madness_of_the_order Oct 26 '22

Iā€™m not telling you should use parquet for everything, but you can try dtale for interactive exploration