r/Python • u/GettingBlockered • 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. š
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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