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 is expected to speed up some programs and simplifies handling immutable data. UTF-8 as standard requires testing.

This time, I thought about a Python server app. The theme is video editing without re-encoding.It is seasonal, but I often ...

Parent article: Python moratorium and the future of 2.x I agree with you on the point of increasing efficiency by doing less conversions. Basically it boils down to annotating a string with its ...

The first of four beta previews of Python 3.7 is now available, with a new DataClasses module, an easier way to enter the debugger, and a UTF-8 mode that uses UTF-8 encoding by default. The scheduled ...