LWN: Comments on "Python 3.11 released"

Python 3.11 released

LightDot — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 05:56:19 +0000

"Python 3.11 released"

Python 95 coming up next!

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rnestler — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 09:36:39 +0000

> "And now for something completely different"

It's also a reference to the Monty Python movie with the same title: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_Now_for_Something_Compl...

And now for something completely different (was: Python 3.11 released)

atai — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 13:47:11 +0000

It takes a rocket scientist to release new Python

And now for something completely different (was: Python 3.11 released)

PhilippeRoussel — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 12:58:31 +0000

Something to do with the origins of Python's name maybe ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlCbFu5dpc8

And now for something completely different (was: Python 3.11 released)

gerdesj — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 11:17:37 +0000

"And now for something completely different"

I rather like it and the heading is a complete give away. Certainly livens up the usual boring old change log and you can skip it with no loss of functionality.

And now for something completely different (was: Python 3.11 released)

vstinner — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 06:45:22 +0000

The Python 3.10 and 3.11 release manager is a doctor in physics.

And now for something completely different (was: Python 3.11 released)

tlamp — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 06:01:02 +0000

It seems its tradition to randomly drop an unsolicited physics/mathematic information nugget in there, at least 3.10.0 had one too[0].

Has anybody any background on that, I mean, it is surely interesting, but to me, it came quite unexpected (never read a Python release announcement on discuss.python.org before). FWIW, their slightly more official looking blog post contains it too[1], so what's up with that?

[0]: https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-10-0-is-now-availab...
[1]: https://blog.python.org/2022/10/python-3110-is-now-availa...