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Python 3.9 released

([Development] Oct 5, 2020 20:48 UTC (Mon) (jake))


Version 3.9 of the Python programming language has been [1]released . The [2]changelog , " [3]What's New in Python 3.9 " document, and our [4]recent article have lots more information on the release. " Maintenance releases for the 3.9 series will follow at regular bi-monthly intervals starting in late November of 2020. OK, boring! Where is Python 4? Not so fast! The next release after 3.9 will be 3.10. It will be an incremental improvement over 3.9, just as 3.9 was over 3.8, and so on. "



[1] https://lwn.net/ml/python-dev/F90C58C0-297F-4E5D-8771-4CE78E0BD286@langa.pl/

[2] https://docs.python.org/release/3.9.0/whatsnew/changelog.html#changelog

[3] https://docs.python.org/release/3.9.0/whatsnew/3.9.html

[4] https://lwn.net/Articles/831783/

> In short, now you need filesystem versioning at a per-page level etc.

*ding* *ding* *ding* we have a near winner. Remember, folks, Hurd had been
started by people who not only don't understand UNIX, but detest it.
ITS/TWENEX refugees. And semantics in question comes from there -
they had "open and make sure that anyone who tries to modify will get
a new version, leaving one we'd opened unchanged".

- Al Viro on linux-kernel