Python 3.12.0 alpha 1 released.
As Pablo released Python 3.11.0 final earlier today, now it's my turn to
release Python 3.12.0 alpha 1.
*This is an early developer preview of Python 3.12*
Major new features of the 3.12 series, compared to 3.11
Python 3.12 is still in development. This release, 3.12.0a1 is the first of
seven planned alpha releases.
Alpha releases are intended to make it easier to test the current state of
new features and bug fixes and to test the release process.
During the alpha phase, features may be added up until the start of the
beta phase (2023-05-08) and, if necessary, may be modified or deleted up
until the release candidate phase (2023-07-31). Please keep in mind that
this is a preview release and its use is *not *recommended for production
environments.
Many new features for Python 3.12 are still being planned and written.
Among the new major new features and changes so far:
- The deprecated `wstr` and `wstr_length` members of the C
implementation of unicode objects were removed, per PEP 623
https://peps.python.org/pep-0623/.
- In the `unittest` module, a number of long deprecated methods and
classes were removed. (They had been deprecated since Python 3.1 or 3.2).
- The deprecated `smtpd` module has been removed.
- A number of other old, broken and deprecated functions, classes and
methods have been removed.
- (Hey, **fellow core developer,** if a feature you find important
is missing from this list, let Thomas know
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Thomas Wouters