Python 3.10.0 Is Available

> https://docs.python.org/3.10/whatsnew/3.10.html

Official Docs

New syntax features:

* PEP 634, Structural Pattern Matching: Specification

* PEP 635, Structural Pattern Matching: Motivation and Rationale

* PEP 636, Structural Pattern Matching: Tutorial

* bpo-12782, Parenthesized context managers are now officially allowed.

New features in the standard library:

* PEP 618, Add Optional Length-Checking To zip.

Interpreter improvements:

* PEP 626, Precise line numbers for debugging and other tools.

New typing features:

* PEP 604, Allow writing union types as X | Y

* PEP 613, Explicit Type Aliases

* PEP 612, Parameter Specification Variables

Important deprecations, removals or restrictions:

PEP 644, Require OpenSSL 1.1.1 or newer

* PEP 632, Deprecate distutils module.

* PEP 623, Deprecate and prepare for the removal of the wstr member in PyUnicodeObject.

* PEP 624, Remove Py_UNICODE encoder APIs

* PEP 597, Add optional EncodingWarning

I am pleasantly surprised. Seems to be about 9% faster than Python 3.9 and whole 21% faster than Python3.8 [1] with performance improvements across math operations, regex and multiprocessing. Well done Python!

[1] Benchmarked with https://github.com/vprelovac/python-speed

Python releases do get an awful lot of attention on HN.