What's coming in Python 3.8?

What will be added to Python 3.8? Quite some changes. Don't know Python, it's a good time to start

• The walrus operator

The walrus operator will be addded (:=). That's because with a bit of imagination it looks like a walrus.

m = re.match(p1, line)
if m:
    return m.group(1)
else:
    m = re.match(p2, line)
    if m:
        return m.group(2)
    else:
        m = re.match(p3, line)
        ...

becomes:

if m := re.match(p1, line):
    return m.group(1)
elif m := re.match(p2, line):
    return m.group(2)
elif m := re.match(p3, line):

• Debug support for f-strings

What are f-strings you say? You can easily output stuff:

answer = 42
f'The answer is not {answer+1}'
f'The root of the answer is {math.sqrt(answer)}'

A lot easier than adding + str(answer) and that kind of stuff.

• Positional-only parameters
• A movable pycache

and more things. Your old Python 3.x code will still work.

Related links:

• What's coming in Python 3.8
• Learn Python Programming

Comments

[Ilya]

And, moreover, changes in multiprocessing :)
"multiprocessing can now use shared memory segments to avoid pickling costs between processes"