What's changing in Python 3.15? 3 things beginners should know [Less garbled text]

Have you ever had the experience of opening a CSV or text file in Python only to find it unreadable due to garbled text? This is a common stumbling block for beginners, especially those working with ...
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Python 3, ASCII, and UTF-8

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 ...

For those who can use Python, how about this usage? — String replacement in template files

I may have given this a rather grand title, but what I am introducing this time is simply reading a text file, replacing some ...
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Python 3.15 arrives with lazy imports, UTF-8 by default and a faster JIT

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 ...
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Python 3.15 released: Lazy imports, UTF-8 and new data types

Python 3.15.0 is available. The new major version of the programming language was released on October 9, 2026, and brings changes to the language, the CPython reference interpreter, and the standard ...
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Help with writing a UTF-8 text file and getting it automatically recognised as UTF-8

I'm working on a program that is writing a UTF-8 text file. This process works fine. What doesn't work fine is that TextEdit.app (and others) does not recognise it automatically as a UTF-8 text file, ...
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Python 3, ASCII, and UTF-8

As far as I'm concerned, it is silly to claim that Python's Unicode strings are “strictly not better” than byte sequences when it is possible, in Python 3, to open a text file using the built-in open( ...