Python’s new JIT compiler might be the biggest speed boost we’ve seen in a while, but it’s not without bumps. Get that news and more, in this week’s report.

Similar to #138061 in Fedora, we have found out that the digest in JIT stencils in 3.15.0a2 differs. (Clarification edit: This is not a new bug in a2, we merely have not discovered it before.) Due to ...

The Python team has released version 3.14, with big new features including free threading support, the ability to use concurrent interpreters, improved debugger support, and an opt-in new interpreter ...

Submit a PR with your changes and ensure the PR passes the doc CI tests. Specifically it needs to pass: pull / linux-docs / build-docs-python-false (pull_request) linux-jammy-py3.9-gcc11 / test ...

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 is incredibly popular because it's easy to learn, versatile, and has thousands of useful libraries for data science. But one thing it is not is fast. That's about to change in Python 3.11, ...

Pyjion, a just-in-time (JIT) compilation system for Python that compiles to the .NET 6 runtime, is now available in a 1.0 version. Pronounced “pigeon,” and developed by Python Software Foundation ...

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