Editor, Łukasz Langa,. This article explains the new features in Python 3.9, compared to 3.8. Python 3.9 was released on October 5, 2020. For full details, see the changelog. Summary – Release high...

Editor, Elvis Pranskevichus < elvis@magic.io>,. This article explains the new features in Python 3.7, compared to 3.6. Python 3.7 was released on June 27, 2018. For full details, see the changelog....

The functions described in this chapter will let you handle and raise Python exceptions. It is important to understand some of the basics of Python exception handling. It works somewhat like the PO...

Author, A.M. Kuchling and Moshe Zadka,. Introduction: A new release of Python, version 2.0, was released on October 16, 2000. This article covers the exciting new features in 2.0, highlights some o...

Build Requirements: Features required to build CPython: A C11 compiler. Optional C11 features are not required., Support for IEEE 754 floating point numbers and floating point Not-a-Number (NaN)., ...

Contents: Programming FAQ- General Questions- Is there a source code level debugger with breakpoints, single-stepping, etc.?, Are there tools to help find bugs or perform static analysis?, How can ...

Source code: Lib/logging/handlers.py Important: This page contains only reference information. For tutorials, please see Basic Tutorial, Advanced Tutorial, Logging Cookbook. The following useful ha...

This section aims to give a quick fly-by on the various type methods you can implement and what they do. Here is the definition of PyTypeObject, with some fields only used in debug builds omitted: ...

Source code: Lib/codecs.py This module defines base classes for standard Python codecs (encoders and decoders) and provides access to the internal Python codec registry, which manages the codec and...

Source code: Lib/mailbox.py This module defines two classes, Mailbox and Message, for accessing and manipulating on-disk mailboxes and the messages they contain. Mailbox offers a dictionary-like ma...