Python 3.15 goes global with UTF-8 support

Today all the cool languages and runtimes pledge allegiance to UTF-8, including Rust, Go, and Node.js (JavaScript itself prefers UTF-16 for internal encoding). Most code editors, from Visual Studio ...

Python 3.15 released: Lazy imports, UTF-8 and new data types

Python 3.15 is expected to speed up some programs and simplifies handling immutable data. UTF-8 as standard requires testing.
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Python 3.15 arrives with lazy imports, UTF-8 by default and a faster JIT

Python 3.15 is out with explicit lazy imports, UTF-8 as the default encoding, frozendict and sentinel types, the Tachyon ...
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Python 3.15 Released With Experimental JIT Compiler Running Faster

Python 3.15 is out today as the newest annual feature release for the Python programming language. Python's JIT compiler is ...

Can't read CSV even in Python 3.15? Practice specifying character encoding

"I updated Python, but I can't read Japanese CSV files." When you open a file you've received and see a string of English ...
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Python 3, ASCII, and UTF-8

The dreaded UnicodeDecodeError exception is one of the signature "features" of Python 3. It is raised when the language encounters a byte sequence that it cannot ...
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Python 3, ASCII, and UTF-8

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Python 3.15 erschienen: Faule Importe, UTF-8 und neue Datentypen

Python 3.15 soll manche Programme schneller starten lassen und vereinfacht den Umgang mit unveränderlichen Daten. UTF-8 als ...