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Python 3.13.5 is out - upgrade now as this has some urgent bugfixes and addresses some regressions. www.python.org/downloads/re...
Python Release Python 3.13.5
The official home of the Python Programming Language
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June 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Quick hack for faster json.dumps in Python: turn off circular reference checking.
aivarsk.com/2025/05/30/p...
Python JSON encoder apples and oranges and making it faster
There are several JSON library benchmarks like this one where the built-in Python json library is not the worst performer but there are several libraries that have even up to 4x better result. Some of...
aivarsk.com
May 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Oof
"It's been a tough couple of days. Microsoft's support for the Faster CPython project was canceled yesterday, and my heart goes out to the majority of the team that was laid off. A hard day for me, but even harder for others."
www.linkedin.com/posts/mdboom...
It's been a tough couple of days. Microsoft's support for the Faster… | Mike Droettboom | 39 comments
It's been a tough couple of days. Microsoft's support for the Faster CPython project was canceled yesterday, and my heart goes out to the majority of the team that was laid off. A hard day f...
www.linkedin.com
May 16, 2025 at 6:19 PM
We now have an automated tracker for wheels that support free threaded Python: hugovk.github.io/free-threade...
🧵 Free-Threaded Wheels
hugovk.github.io
May 16, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Meta's now on the Python-tools-in-Rust train: a type checker (and IDE?!) called Pyrefly.

github.com/facebook/pyr...
GitHub - facebook/pyrefly: A fast type checker and IDE for Python
A fast type checker and IDE for Python. Contribute to facebook/pyrefly development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Oops. Turns out the performance boost from the interpreter change in 3.14 was due to a compiler bug. There's still a speedup, but not nearly as dramatic. Hey, free performance is always welcome...
March 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM