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Podcast: Software Engineering Daily
Episode: The Big Changes in Python 3.13 with Łukasz Langa
Description: Python 3.13 was just released and brings fundamental changes to the language including a new interactive interpreter, experimental support for running in a free-threaded mode, and a Just-In-Time compiler, or JIT. There are also updates to the Python type system, module removals, and docstring improvements among many other changes.Łukasz Langa is the CPython Developer in Residence at the Python Software Foundation. He joins the show with Sean Falconer to talk about maintaining Python, the evolution of the language, Python optimization, the most impactful changes in Python 3.13, and more.Sean's been an academic, s...