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IPython enhances Python's interactive mode with syntax highlighting and magic commands It offers built-in help, tab completion, and the ability to run system commands within Python You can log ...

Python 3.13 has been released with a slight delay on the home straight. The new interactive shell aims to make development more convenient. In addition, the global interpreter lock can now be ...

Python 3.13 introduced the first public, if experimental, “free-threaded” or “no-GIL” builds of the language, which we’ll call “3.13t.” 3.13t allows CPU-bound Python threads to run with true ...

The native just-in-time compiler in Python 3.15 can speed up code by as much as 20% or more, although it’s still experimental. JITing, or “just-in-time” compilation, can make relatively slow ...