Anthony Shaw
Anthony Shaw is a Python advocate at Microsoft from Sydney, Australia. Anthony is a contributor to many open-source communities. Running and contributing to several popular open-source tools for DevOps, Security, Automation and Code Quality. Anthony has been recognised for his contribution to open-source, including as Fellow of the Python Software Foundation and member of the Apache Software Foundation. Anthony runs a Python blog and YouTube channel and has recently published a book, "CPython Internals", on the Python compiler.
Session
3.11 is the latest release of CPython. Scheduled for October 2022, Python 3.11 comes with new language features like exception groups and asyncio task groups. The biggest change in 3.11 compared with 3.10 and below is speed. 3.11 is the fastest version of CPython yet. In this talk, we will showcase benchmarks on Python 3.11’s speed gains and where to expect improvement in your code.