I'm against making magic "unicode" strings with unspecified encoding and then forcing everything to use these strings. The idea behind “Unicode” strings is that they are not encoded at all (so much ...

The Python string object isn’t that different from those encountered in other languages, but there are some differences that might puzzle you if you are familiar with other languages. It starts out ...

Python 3.15 reached stable status on Oct. 9, 2026, according to its official release page. Its headline changes put UTF-8 in charge of text encoding by default and introduce an opt-in lazy keyword for ...

LWN is still Python 2. The last dependency just moved forward a month or two ago, so all that's needed is a bit of time to make the switch. That "bit of time" part can be surprisingly hard, though. So ...