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• PEP Index
• Introduction
• Topics
• API
• Numerical Index
• Index by Category
• Process and Meta-PEPs
• Other Informational PEPs
• Provisional PEPs (provisionally accepted; interface may still change)
• Accepted PEPs (accepted; may not be implemented yet)
• Open PEPs (under consideration)
• Finished PEPs (done, with a stable interface)
• Historical Meta-PEPs and Informational PEPs
• Deferred PEPs (postponed pending further research or updates)
• Rejected, Superseded, and Withdrawn PEPs
• Reserved PEP Numbers
• PEP Types Key
• PEP Status Key
• Authors/Owners
• assigned
• http://peps.python.org/topic/
• Governance PEPs
• Packaging PEPs
• Release PEPs
• Typing PEPs
• PEPS API
• http://peps.python.org/api/
• http://peps.python.org/numerical/
• PEP Purpose and Guidelines
• Procedure for Adding New Modules
• Deprecation of Standard Modules
• Style Guide for C Code
• Style Guide for Python Code
• Voting Guidelines
• CPython platform support
• Sample reStructuredText PEP Template
• Python Language Governance
• Backwards Compatibility Policy
• Python Documentation Translations
• Annual Release Cycle for Python
• Python Packaging Authority (PyPA) Governance
• PEP Infrastructure Process
• Typing governance process
• C API Working Group Charter
• The Python Documentation Editorial Board
• Deprecating PGP signatures for CPython artifacts
• Defining Python Security Response Team membership and responsibilities
• The Zen of Python
• Doing Python Releases 101
• API for Cryptographic Hash Functions
• Python Database API Specification v1.0
• Python Database API Specification v2.0
• Docstring Conventions
• API for Block Encryption Algorithms v1.0
• reStructuredText Docstring Format
• Code Migration and Modernization
• Python Web Server Gateway Interface v1.0
• The “python” Command on Unix-Like Systems
• Pure Python/C Accelerator Module Compatibility Requirements
• Migrating to Python 3 as the default online documentation
• IDLE Enhancement Exception for All Branches
• API for Cryptographic Hash Functions v2.0
• Notation For Positional-Only Parameters
• Literature Overview for Type Hints
• The Theory of Type Hints
• Python registration in the Windows registry
• Refactoring C functions and methods
• GitHub Issues Migration Plan
• Reducing CPython’s Feature Delivery Latency
• Python 3.10 Release Schedule
• Isolating Extension Modules
• Structural Pattern Matching: Motivation and Rationale
• Structural Pattern Matching: Tutorial
• Specializing Adaptive Interpreter
• Python 3.11 Release Schedule
• Unicode-related Security Considerations for Python
• Python 3.12 Release Schedule
• Python 3.13 Release Schedule
• An Evaluation of Python’s Public C API
• Python 3.14 Release Schedule
• REPL-acing the default REPL
• Python 3.15 Release Schedule
• RESERVED
• WASI Support
• Python 3.16 Release Schedule
• Python Web Server Gateway Interface v1.0.1
• Python Language Governance Proposal Overview
• Open Source Governance Survey
• The Steering Council Model
• January 2019 Steering Council election
• 2020 Term Steering Council election
• 2021 Term Steering Council election
• 2022 Term Steering Council election
• 2023 Term Steering Council election
• 2024 Term Steering Council election
• 2025 Term Steering Council election
• 2026 Term Steering Council election
• Extending the Repository API to Mitigate Dependency Confusion Attacks
• Secure PyPI downloads with signed repository metadata
• Serve Distribution Metadata in the Simple Repository API
• Marking Python base environments as “externally managed”
• Isolating modules in the standard library
• JSON-based Simple API for Python Package Indexes
• Remove private dict version field added in PEP 509
• Syntactic formalization of f-strings
• Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython
• Rename dist-info-metadata in the Simple API
• TypedDict with Typed Extra Items
• build-details.json 1.0 — a static description file for Python build details
• Uniform project URLs in core metadata
• Improving measurability of Python packages with Software Bill-of-Materials
• A Python Installation Manager for Windows
• PyModExport: A new entry point for C extension modules
• Import Name Metadata
• Unpacking in Comprehensions
• A dedicated profiling package for organizing Python profiling tools
• “abi3t”: Stable ABI for Free-Threaded Builds
• Explicit lazy imports
• Minor API improvements for binary sequences
• Surviving a Compromise of PyPI: End-to-end signing of packages
• Adding a frozenmap type to collections
• Syntactic Macros
• Precise Semantics for Pattern Matching
• Syntax for late-bound function argument defaults
• Upload 2.0 API for Python Package Indexes
• Recording the provenance of installed packages
• PyBI: a standard format for distributing Python Binaries
• Subscriptable functions
• Cross-compiling Python packages
• Specifying external dependencies in pyproject.toml
• JIT Compilation
• Type checking Annotated metadata
• A Unified TLS API for Python
• Implicit namespaces for package repositories
• Implicit namespace policy for PyPI
• Inline typed dictionaries
• Explicit Priority Choices Among Multiple Indexes
• Annotating Read-Only Attributes
• Default Extras for Python Software Packages
• Packaging Council governance process
• Emscripten Support
• How to Re-invent the Wheel
• ABI features as environment markers
• Make TYPE_CHECKING a built-in constant
• Emscripten Packaging
• New methods for easier handling of ExceptionGroups
• Protecting the C API from Interpreter Finalization
• Preventing task-cancellation bugs by limiting yield in async generators
• Shared Object Proxies
• Disjoint bases in the type system
• Display Syntax for the Empty Set
• An external dependency registry and name mapping mechanism
• Mixed sync/async context managers with precise async marking
• Index support for Trusted Publishing
• Including static values in dynamic metadata
• Stable ABI for the Future
• The Pretty Print Protocol
• Wheel Variants: Beyond Platform Tags
• Adding the Core of the Pyodide Foreign Function Interface to Python
• JSON Package Metadata
• PySlot: Unified slot system for the C API
• Support for unpacking TypedDicts in Callable type hints
• Dedented Multiline String (d-string)
• Wheel Variants: Package Format
• Type Manipulation
• Supporting ‘yield from’ in asynchronous generators
• Python Unicode Integration
• Lockstep Iteration
• List Comprehensions
• Augmented Assignments
• Weak References
• Rich Comparisons
• Reworking the Coercion Model
• Extended Print Statement
• Display Hook for Interactive Use
• Adding a Built-In Set Object Type
• Import As
• Change the Meaning of x Escapes
• Statically Nested Scopes
• Using Distutils to Build Python
• Warning Framework
• Function Attributes
• Iterators
• Import on Case-Insensitive Platforms
• Back to the __future__
• Unifying Long Integers and Integers
• Changing the Division Operator
• Using site-packages on Windows
• Making Types Look More Like Classes
• Subtyping Built-in Types
• Simple Generators
• Simplify xrange()
• Support for “wide” Unicode characters
• Defining Python Source Code Encodings
• Future statements in simulated shells
• Import Modules from Zip Archives
• Dict Comprehensions
• Unicode file name support for Windows NT
• Universal Newline Support
• The enumerate() built-in function
• A Logging System
• Adding a bool type
• Generator Expressions
• Simpler String Substitutions
• Codec Error Handling Callbacks
• Package Index and Metadata for Distutils
• New Import Hooks
• CSV File API
• Extensions to the pickle protocol
• Conditional Expressions
• Partial Function Application
• Simplified Global Interpreter Lock Acquisition for Extensions
• Decorators for Functions and Methods
• Reverse Iteration
• subprocess - New process module
• Decimal Data Type
• Imports: Multi-Line and Absolute/Relative
• Locale-Independent Float/String Conversions
• Executing modules as scripts
• Unifying try-except and try-finally
• Coroutines via Enhanced Generators
• The “with” Statement
• Required Superclass for Exceptions
• Using ssize_t as the index type
• Allowing Any Object to be Used for Slicing
• The “bytes” Object
• Function Signature Object
• Main module explicit relative imports
• Per user site-packages directory
• Addition of the multiprocessing package to the standard library
• Adding an ordered dictionary to collections
• Database of Installed Python Distributions
• Format Specifier for Thousands Separator
• Syntax for Delegating to a Subgenerator
• Non-decodable Bytes in System Character Interfaces
• Defining a Stable ABI
• argparse - New Command Line Parsing Module
• Dictionary-Based Configuration For Logging
• Flexible String Representation
• Python launcher for Windows
• Python Virtual Environments
• Suppressing exception context
• Key-Sharing Dictionary
• Explicit Unicode Literal for Python 3.3
• Implement context suppression with exception attributes
• Including mock in the Standard Library
• Add monotonic time, performance counter, and process time functions
• Implicit Namespace Packages
• Adding sys.implementation
• A method for exposing a length hint
• Compatibility Tags for Built Distributions
• The Wheel Binary Package Format 1.0
• The pathlib module – object-oriented filesystem paths
• Adding an Enum type to the Python standard library
• The Argument Clinic DSL
• Version Identification and Dependency Specification
• Improving Python ZIP Application Support
• Safe object finalization
• Single-dispatch generic functions
• Add new APIs to customize Python memory allocators
• Make newly created file descriptors non-inheritable
• Additional Unpacking Generalizations
• Adding A Statistics Module To The Standard Library
• A ModuleSpec Type for the Import System
• Explicit bootstrapping of pip in Python installations
• Add a new tracemalloc module to trace Python memory allocations
• Secure and interchangeable hash algorithm
• Adding % formatting to bytes and bytearray
• A dedicated infix operator for matrix multiplication
• Network Security Enhancements for Python 2.7.x
• Preserving the order of **kwargs in a function.
• os.scandir() function – a better and faster directory iterator
• Retry system calls failing with EINTR
• Enabling certificate verification by default for stdlib http clients
• Backport ensurepip (PEP 453) to Python 2.7
• Change StopIteration handling inside generators
• Type Hints
• A Function for testing approximate equality
• Make the Python Launcher aware of virtual environments
• Simpler customisation of class creation
• Elimination of PYO files
• Multi-phase extension module initialization
• Coroutines with async and await syntax
• HTTPS verification migration tools for Python 2.7
• Local Time Disambiguation
• Literal String Interpolation
• Simple Repository API
• Adding A Secrets Module To The Standard Library
• Dependency specification for Python Software Packages
• Underscores in Numeric Literals
• A build-system independent format for source trees
• Specifying Minimum Build System Requirements for Python Projects
• Adding a file system path protocol
• Preserving Class Attribute Definition Order
• Adding a frame evaluation API to CPython
• Make os.urandom() blocking on Linux
• Asynchronous Generators
• Syntax for Variable Annotations
• Removing Un(der)used file types/extensions on PyPI
• Change Windows console encoding to UTF-8
• Change Windows filesystem encoding to UTF-8
• Asynchronous Comprehensions
• Coercing the legacy C locale to a UTF-8 based locale
• A New C-API for Thread-Local Storage in CPython
• Add a new UTF-8 Mode
• Protocols: Structural subtyping (static duck typing)
• Deterministic pycs
• Built-in breakpoint()
• Data Classes
• Core support for typing module and generic types
• Distributing and Packaging Type Information
• Module __getattr__ and __dir__
• Add new time functions with nanosecond resolution
• Show DeprecationWarning in __main__
• Metadata for Python Software Packages 2.1
• Context Variables
• Python Positional-Only Parameters
• Assignment Expressions
• Module State Access from C Extension Methods
• Pickle protocol 5 with out-of-band data
• Python Runtime Audit Hooks
• Add Union Operators To dict
• Type Hinting Generics In Standard Collections
• Literal Types
• Python Initialization Configuration
• TypedDict: Type Hints for Dictionaries with a Fixed Set of Keys
• Vectorcall: a fast calling protocol for CPython
• Adding a final qualifier to typing
• Adding “Yank” Support to the Simple API
• Flexible function and variable annotations
• Removing dead batteries from the standard library
• Add optional EncodingWarning
• Future ‘manylinux’ Platform Tags for Portable Linux Built Distributions
• Allow writing union types as X | Y
• Recording the Direct URL Origin of installed distributions
• Parameter Specification Variables
• Explicit Type Aliases
• Relaxing Grammar Restrictions On Decorators
• Support for the IANA Time Zone Database in the Standard Library
• String methods to remove prefixes and suffixes
• New PEG parser for CPython
• Add Optional Length-Checking To zip
• Storing project metadata in pyproject.toml
• Remove wstr from Unicode
• Remove Py_UNICODE encoder APIs
• Filename of a Source Distribution
• Precise line numbers for debugging and other tools.
• Recording installed projects
• Add math.tau
• Versioning PyPI’s Simple API
• Deprecate distutils module
• Structural Pattern Matching: Specification
• Improving License Clarity with Better Package Metadata
• Metadata for Package Source Distributions
• Require OpenSSL 1.1.1 or newer
• Variadic Generics
• User-Defined Type Guards
• Deferred Evaluation Of Annotations Using Descriptors
• Maintaining the Stable ABI
• Exception Groups and except*
• Marking individual TypedDict items as required or potentially-missing
• Platform Tag for Linux Distributions Using Musl
• Include Fine Grained Error Locations in Tracebacks
• Editable installs for pyproject.toml based builds (wheel based)
• Consistent views of namespaces
• Low Impact Monitoring for CPython
• Convert macros to functions in the Python C API
• Self Type
• Arbitrary Literal String Type
• Enriching Exceptions with Notes
• tomllib: Support for Parsing TOML in the Standard Library
• Data Class Transforms
• Format Specifier for Signed Zero
• Immortal Objects, Using a Fixed Refcount
• A Per-Interpreter GIL
• Comparison of extra names for optional distribution dependencies
• Make UTF-8 mode default
• Making the buffer protocol accessible in Python
• Unstable C API tier
• Using TypedDict for more precise **kwargs typing
• Type Parameter Syntax
• Type Defaults for Type Parameters
• Limited C API for Extending Opaque Types
• Override Decorator for Static Typing
• Additional Fields for the Simple API for Package Indexes
• Marking deprecations using the type system
• TypedDict: Read-only items
• Filter for tarfile.extractall
• Inlined comprehensions
• Disabling bdist_egg distribution uploads on PyPI
• Using tarfile.data_filter for source distribution extraction
• Inline script metadata
• Adding iOS as a supported platform
• Multiple Interpreters in the Stdlib
• Dependency Groups in pyproject.toml
• C API to format a type fully qualified name
• Adding Android as a supported platform
• Index support for digital attestations
• Python Configuration C API
• Narrowing types with TypeIs
• Annotating Type Forms
• Implementing PEP 649
• Template Strings
• A file format to record Python dependencies for installation reproducibility
• C API to import-export Python integers
• Allow except and except* expressions without parentheses
• Disallow return/break/continue that exit a finally block
• Safe external debugger interface for CPython
• Criteria for supported status for free-threaded Python
• Add PyBytesWriter C API
• Adding Zstandard to the standard library
• math.integer — submodule for integer-specific mathematics functions
• Project status markers in the simple index
• Add frozendict built-in type
• Deprecate RECORD.jws and RECORD.p7s
• Advanced String Formatting
• Keyword-Only Arguments
• Access to Names in Outer Scopes
• Make print a function
• Revamping dict.keys(), .values() and .items()
• Function Annotations
• Standard Library Reorganization
• Raising Exceptions in Python 3000
• Catching Exceptions in Python 3000
• Simple input built-in in Python 3000
• Bytes literals in Python 3000
• Removal of Tuple Parameter Unpacking
• Renaming iterator.next() to iterator.__next__()
• Metaclasses in Python 3000
• New I/O
• Revising the buffer protocol
• Introducing Abstract Base Classes
• Using UTF-8 as the default source encoding
• Extension Module Initialization and Finalization
• Making PyObject_HEAD conform to standard C
• Integer Literal Support and Syntax
• Class Decorators
• Supporting Non-ASCII Identifiers
• Extended Iterable Unpacking
• Exception Chaining and Embedded Tracebacks
• New Super
• Immutable Bytes and Mutable Buffer
• String representation in Python 3000
• A Type Hierarchy for Numbers
• IP Address Manipulation Library for the Python Standard Library
• PYC Repository Directories
• futures - execute computations asynchronously
• ABI version tagged .so files
• Reworking the OS and IO exception hierarchy
• Pickle protocol version 4
• Qualified name for classes and functions
• Asynchronous IO Support Rebooted: the “asyncio” Module
• Guidelines for Language Evolution
• Bug Fix Releases
• Python 1.6 Release Schedule
• Python 2.0 Release Schedule
• Python 2.1 Release Schedule
• Python 2.2 Release Schedule
• Python 2.3 Release Schedule
• Python 2.4 Release Schedule
• Migrating the Python CVS to Subversion
• Python 2.5 Release Schedule
• Externally Maintained Packages
• Python 2.6 and 3.0 Release Schedule
• Python 2.7 Release Schedule
• Choosing a distributed VCS for the Python project
• Python 3.1 Release Schedule
• Migrating from Subversion to Mercurial
• Python 3.2 Release Schedule
• Python 3.3 Release Schedule
• Python 2.8 Un-release Schedule
• Python 3.4 Release Schedule
• Transitioning to release-file hosting on PyPI
• Removal of the PyPI Mirror Auto Discovery and Naming Scheme
• Removal of the PyPI Mirror Authenticity API
• Removing External Hosting Support on PyPI
• Python 3.5 Release Schedule
• Python 3.6 Release Schedule
• Migrating from hg.python.org to GitHub
• Python 3.7 Release Schedule
• Package Index Name Retention
• Python 3.8 Release Schedule
• Using GitHub Issues for CPython
• Python 3.9 Release Schedule
• Python 3000
• Procedure for Backwards-Incompatible Changes
• Python Language Moratorium
• Things that will Not Change in Python 3000
• Miscellaneous Python 3.0 Plans
• Python Governance Voting Process
• Attribute Access Handlers
• Stackless Python
• Web Library Enhancements
• Python Online Help
• Optimized Access to Module Namespaces
• Pgen Module for Python
• Optimizing access to globals
• Enhanced Argument Tuples
• Simple Implicit Lambda
• Programming by Contract for Python
• Copyable Iterators
• Logging Usage in the Standard Library
• Standard image protocol and class
• Deprecate codecs.StreamReader and codecs.StreamWriter
• General purpose decorator clause (aka “@in” clause)
• New release cycle and introducing long-term support versions
• Protecting cleanup statements from interruptions
• Naming conventions and recipes related to packaging
• Python Web3 Interface
• Add __getdescriptor__ method to metaclass
• The Wheel Binary Package Format 1.9
• python -m foo should also bind ‘foo’ in sys.modules
• None-aware operators
• A circuit breaking protocol and binary operators
• Deterministic cleanup for iterators
• Rich comparison chaining
• Running extension modules using the -m option
• Threaded garbage collection
• Generator-sensitivity for Context Variables
• Sentinel Values
• Disallow using macros as l-values
• Removing the LLVM requirement for JIT builds
• Supporting Symlinks in Wheels
• Safer subprocess usage using t-strings
• Overloading, Generic Functions, Interfaces, and Adaptation
• Standard daemon process library
• Statement local namespaces (aka “given” clause)
• Guidelines for Handling Bug Reports
• Sample Plaintext PEP Template
• Feature Requests
• Doing Python Micro Releases
• Collecting information about git
• Range Literals
• Python Advanced Library
• Multi-dimensional Arrays
• Decoupling the Interpreter Loop
• Adding A New Outer Product Operator
• Loop Counter Iteration
• String Interpolation
• Docstring Format
• Coroutines, Generators, Continuations
• Attribute Docstrings
• Elementwise/Objectwise Operators
• Reworking Python’s Numeric Model
• __findattr__()
• Adding a Rational Type to Python
• Adding a Rational Literal to Python
• Metadata for Python Software Packages
• Numeric Kinds
• Module Repository Upload Mechanism
• The directive statement
• Python Interface Syntax
• Object Adaptation
• Making Classes Look More Like Types
• Docstring Processing System Framework
• Docutils Design Specification
• Omit printing newline after newline
• A Database of Installed Python Packages
• Sorting Dictionaries by Value
• Optimizing Global Variable/Attribute Access
• Extended HTTP functionality and WebDAV
• uniq method for list objects
• Prefixing sys.path by command line option
• Switching on Multiple Values
• Simple Iterator for ints
• Loop Counter Iteration with range and xrange
• Integer for-loops
• Generators Attributes and Exceptions
• Backward Compatibility for the Python 2 Standard Library
• Type Names in the types Module
• Interpretation of multiline string constants
• Adding a bytes Object Type
• Support for System Upgrades
• The Locked Buffer Interface
• Special __main__() function in modules
• Extend divmod() for Multiple Divisors
• Controlling Generation of Bytecode Files
• How to Change Python’s Grammar
• Reliable Acquisition/Release Pairs
• Adding Roman Numeral Literals to Python
• Metadata for Python Software Packages 1.1
• Enhanced While Loop
• Eliminate Implicit Exception Instantiation
• Python Synchronize/Asynchronize Block
• Date/Time Parsing and Formatting
• Resource-Release Support for Generators
• A Case for Top and Bottom Values
• Treating Builtins as Constants in the Standard Library
• Python Bytecode Verification
• Byte vectors and String/Unicode Unification
• Simple Coroutines via SuspendIteration
• Overloadable Boolean Operators
• Make None Callable
• Design of the CPython Compiler
• Anonymous Block Statements
• Exception Chaining and Embedded Tracebacks
• Metadata for Python Software Packages 1.2
• User Defined (“with”) Statements
• Exception Reorganization for Python 3.0
• Allow str() to return unicode strings
• Codetags
• The freeze protocol
• Enumerations in Python
• Path - Object oriented filesystem paths
• The “make” Statement
• Syntax For Dynamic Attribute Access
• Transitioning to the Py3K Standard Library
• Adding the pkg_resources module
• New Super
• Post import hooks
• Allow __enter__() methods to skip the statement body
• Adding an Assignment Expression
• Mirroring infrastructure for PyPI
• Namespace Packages
• Changing the version comparison module in Distutils
• Static metadata for Distutils
• Qualified Names for Modules
• Module Version Numbers
• BDFL Retirement
• Simplified Package Layout and Partitioning
• Improved Encapsulation of Import State
• Standard library __preview__ package
• Use decimal.Decimal type for timestamps
• Provisional packages in the Python standard library
• Faster evolution of the Python Standard Library
• Add a frozendict builtin type
• Simpler customisation of class creation
• Metadata for Python Software Packages 2.0
• Time zone support improvements
• Restructuring the CPython startup sequence
• Easier suppression of file descriptor inheritance
• A DSL for specifying signatures, annotations and argument converters
• Inclusion of implicit pip bootstrap in Python installation
• Adding a key-transforming dictionary to collections
• Standard Metadata Extensions for Python Software Packages
• Add binary interpolation and formatting
• Core development workflow automation for CPython
• Exception-catching expressions
• Migration of dict iteration code to Python 3
• Support for indexing with keyword arguments
• Adding structured data to built-in exceptions
• Creating forge.python.org
• Migrate CPython to Git, Github, and Phabricator
• Chain exceptions at C level
• Environment Markers
• A standard mechanism for backward compatibility
• A protocol for delegating datetime methods to their tzinfo implementations
• General purpose template literal strings
• String Interpolation - Extended Discussion
• Using the System RNG by default
• Migrate CPython to Git and GitLab
• Add a private version to dict
• Specialize functions with guards
• API for code transformers
• A Platform Tag for Portable Linux Built Distributions
• Build system abstraction for pip/conda etc
• Managing global context via ‘with’ blocks in generators and coroutines
• Allow BlockingIOError in security sensitive APIs
• Existence checking operators
• Improved Errors for Missing Standard Library Modules
• Final Grammar for Literal String Interpolation
• Dot Notation Assignment In Function Header
• A Unified TLS API for Python
• Backport ssl.MemoryBIO and ssl.SSLObject to Python 2.7
• More Flexible Loop Control
• Instance Descriptors
• Execution Context
• Security transparency in the Python runtime
• Multiple Interpreters in the Stdlib
• Context-local variables (contextvars)
• Defined semantics for locals()
• Built-in noop()
• Postponed Evaluation of Annotations
• The manylinux2010 Platform Tag
• Unifying function/method classes
• Rationalize Built-in function classes
• Augmented Assignment Expressions
• The C call protocol
• Python local packages directory
• A Concurrency Memory Model for Python
• Improving bugs.python.org
• Introducing incremental feature releases
• The manylinux2014 Platform Tag
• Forbid return/break/continue breaking out of finally
• A rolling feature release stream for CPython
• Python Compatibility Version
• Coordinated Python release
• The one million limit
• Hide implementation details from the C API
• Structural Pattern Matching
• Dependency specification in pyproject.toml based on PEP 508
• Dependency specification in pyproject.toml using an exploded TOML table
• Support for indexing with keyword arguments
• Unused variable syntax
• Using an underscore in the version portion of Python 3.10 compatibility tags
• Explicit Pattern Syntax for Structural Pattern Matching
• Allow writing optional types as x?
• Extensible customizations of the interpreter at startup
• Specifying Installer Requirements for Python Projects
• Robust Stack Overflow Handling
• Editable installs via virtual wheels
• Standardizing Enum str(), repr(), and format() behaviors
• A file format to list Python dependencies for reproducibility of an application
• Reject Foolish Indentation
• Callable Type Syntax
• New assert statement syntax with parentheses
• Lazy Imports
• Require virtual environments by default for package installers
• A simplified signature for __exit__ and __aexit__
• Adding a “converter” parameter to dataclasses.field
• Callable Modules
• Dependency specification for single-file scripts
• Stricter Type Guards
• Module __setattr__ and __delattr__
• Documentation in Annotated Metadata
• Shorthand syntax for keyword arguments at invocation
• Add Py_OMIT_LEGACY_API to the Python C API
• IEEE 754 Floating Point Special Values
• Add PyUnicode_Export() and PyUnicode_Import() C functions
• External Wheel Hosting
• No More Bare Excepts
• Limiting deletions on PyPI
• Add a ‘default’ keyword argument to ‘attrgetter’, ‘itemgetter’ and ‘getitem’
• Make zlib required to build CPython
• Calendar versioning for Python
• Procedure for reviewing and improving standard library modules
• A Switch/Case Statement
• Postfix type declarations
• Delineation of the main module
• Remove Backslash Continuation
• Remove Implicit String Concatenation
• BList: A Faster List-like Type
• Access to Current Module/Class/Function
• Introducing Roles
• Labeled break and continue
• Cleaning out sys and the “interpreter” module
• str(container) should call str(item), not repr(item)
• Add a “while” clause to generator expressions
• Asynchronous I/O For subprocess.Popen
• Merging Unladen Swallow into CPython
• Cofunctions
• Asynchronous IO support
• The Technical Leader Governance Model
• Python Governance Model Lead by Trio of Pythonistas
• The Community Governance Model
• The External Council Governance Model
• The Commons Governance Model
• Organization of the Python community
• More info in PEP 1
• More info in PEP 1

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