#python

PEP 790 schedules Python 3.15.0 final for 2026-10-09. The full What's New is long by design, so this post is the shorter upgrade list I would check first: explicit lazy imports, UTF-8 as the default encoding, unpacking in comprehensions, the new profiling package with Tachyon, and frozendict. Each section stays short -- what changed, why it shows up in day-to-day work, and a small example where one helps. Lazy imports get a concrete beat from years of chasing import cost in the Open World Holidays Framework. Everything else worth planning around still lives in the official What's New and Porting guides.

The 2026 PSF Board election fills four seats under Approval Voting through September 15. This post walks every nominee A-Z with links to nomination statements, AMAs, and PSF blog interviews, plus a short evaluative paragraph on each. I have no personal affiliation with any candidate. Facts and links are a best-effort snapshot from those public sources and may be incomplete or wrong. Read the primary materials before you vote, and contact me if something needs a correction.