What’s New In Python 3.5 | Linux Today

What’s New In Python 3.5

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 16, 2015

This article explains the new features in Python 3.5, compared to 3.4. Python 3.5 was released on September 13, 2015. 

New syntax features:

  • PEP 492, coroutines with async and await syntax.
  • PEP 465, a new matrix multiplication operator: a @ b.
  • PEP 448, additional unpacking generalizations.

New library modules:

New built-in features:

  • bytes % args, bytearray % args: PEP 461 – Adding % formatting to bytes and bytearray.
  • b'xf0x9fx90x8d'.hex(), bytearray(b'xf0x9fx90x8d').hex(), memoryview(b'xf0x9fx90x8d').hex(): issue 9951 – A hex method has been added to bytes, bytearray, and memoryview.
  • memoryview now supports tuple indexing (including multi-dimensional). (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in issue 23632.)
  • Generators have a new gi_yieldfrom attribute, which returns the object being iterated by yield from expressions. (Contributed by Benno Leslie and Yury Selivanov in issue 24450.)
  • A new RecursionError exception is now raised when maximum recursion depth is reached. (Contributed by Georg Brandl in issue 19235.)
Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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