A summary of Python news for the month of July 2023:

  • Python without the GIL, for good

  • LPython: a new Python Compiler

  • Pydantic 2 is getting usable

  • PEP 387 defines “Soft Deprecation”, getopt and optparse soft deprecated

  • Cython 3.0 released with better pure Python support

  • PEP 722 – Dependency specification for single-file scripts

  • Python VSCode support gets faster

  • Paint in the terminal