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On October 9, 2026, Python 3.15.0 was released. When opening a file with open() without specifying a character encoding, it now reads and writes in UTF-8 regardless of OS settings.The impact is ...

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Python is one of the world’s most popular programming languages. In fact, it’s more so than ever. Python climbed from third place to tie for second in the latest ranking of programming language ...

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