What’s New In Python 3.11¶
- Release
3.11.0a0
- Date
September 04, 2021
This article explains the new features in Python 3.11, compared to 3.10.
For full details, see the changelog.
Note
Prerelease users should be aware that this document is currently in draft form. It will be updated substantially as Python 3.11 moves towards release, so it’s worth checking back even after reading earlier versions.
Summary – Release highlights¶
New Features¶
Enhanced error locations in tracebacks¶
When printing tracebacks, the interpreter will now point to the exact expression that caused the error instead of just the line. For example:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "distance.py", line 11, in <module>
print(manhattan_distance(p1, p2))
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "distance.py", line 6, in manhattan_distance
return abs(point_1.x - point_2.x) + abs(point_1.y - point_2.y)
^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'x'
Previous versions of the interpreter would point to just the line making it
ambiguous which object was None
. These enhanced errors can also be helpful
when dealing with deeply nested dictionary objects and multiple function calls,
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "query.py", line 37, in <module>
magic_arithmetic('foo')
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "query.py", line 18, in magic_arithmetic
return add_counts(x) / 25
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "query.py", line 24, in add_counts
return 25 + query_user(user1) + query_user(user2)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "query.py", line 32, in query_user
return 1 + query_count(db, response['a']['b']['c']['user'], retry=True)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not subscriptable
as well as complex arithmetic expressions:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calculation.py", line 54, in <module>
result = (x / y / z) * (a / b / c)
~~~~~~^~~
ZeroDivisionError: division by zero
See PEP 657 for more details. (Contributed by Pablo Galindo, Batuhan Taskaya and Ammar Askar in bpo-43950.)
Note
This feature requires storing column positions in code objects which may
result in a small increase of disk usage of compiled Python files or
interpreter memory usage. To avoid storing the extra information and/or
deactivate printing the extra traceback information, the
-X
no_debug_ranges
command line flag or the PYTHONNODEBUGRANGES
environment variable can be used.
Column information for code objects¶
The information used by the enhanced traceback feature is made available as a general API that can be used to correlate bytecode instructions with source code. This information can be retrieved using:
The
codeobject.co_positions()
method in Python.The
PyCode_Addr2Location()
function in the C-API.
The -X
no_debug_ranges
option and the environment variable
PYTHONNODEBUGRANGES
can be used to disable this feature.
See PEP 657 for more details. (Contributed by Pablo Galindo, Batuhan Taskaya and Ammar Askar in bpo-43950.)
Other Language Changes¶
Asynchronous comprehensions are now allowed inside comprehensions in asynchronous functions. Outer comprehensions implicitly become asynchronous. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in bpo-33346.)
A
TypeError
is now raised instead of anAttributeError
incontextlib.ExitStack.enter_context()
andcontextlib.AsyncExitStack.enter_async_context()
for objects which do not support the context manager or asynchronous context manager protocols correspondingly. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in bpo-44471.)A
TypeError
is now raised instead of anAttributeError
inwith
andasync with
statements for objects which do not support the context manager or asynchronous context manager protocols correspondingly. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in bpo-12022.)
Other CPython Implementation Changes¶
Special methods
complex.__complex__()
andbytes.__bytes__()
are implemented to supporttyping.SupportsComplex
andtyping.SupportsBytes
protocols. (Contributed by Mark Dickinson and Dong-hee Na in bpo-24234.)
New Modules¶
None yet.
Improved Modules¶
fractions¶
Support PEP 515-style initialization of Fraction
from
string. (Contributed by Sergey B Kirpichev in bpo-44258.)
math¶
Add
math.cbrt()
: return the cube root of x. (Contributed by Ajith Ramachandran in bpo-44357.)The behaviour of two
math.pow()
corner cases was changed, for consistency with the IEEE 754 specification. The operationsmath.pow(0.0, -math.inf)
andmath.pow(-0.0, -math.inf)
now returninf
. Previously they raisedValueError
. (Contributed by Mark Dickinson in bpo-44339.)
os¶
On Windows,
os.urandom()
usesBCryptGenRandom()
instead ofCryptGenRandom()
which is deprecated. (Contributed by Dong-hee Na in bpo-44611.)
sqlite3¶
You can now disable the authorizer by passing
None
toset_authorizer()
. (Contributed by Erlend E. Aasland in bpo-44491.)Collation name
create_collation()
can now contain any Unicode character. Collation names with invalid characters now raiseUnicodeEncodeError
instead ofsqlite3.ProgrammingError
. (Contributed by Erlend E. Aasland in bpo-44688.)sqlite3
exceptions now include the SQLite error code assqlite_errorcode
and the SQLite error name assqlite_errorname
. (Contributed by Aviv Palivoda, Daniel Shahaf, and Erlend E. Aasland in bpo-16379.)
Removed¶
smtpd.MailmanProxy
is now removed as it is unusable without an external module,mailman
. (Contributed by Dong-hee Na in bpo-35800.)The
binhex
module, deprecated in Python 3.9, is now removed. The followingbinascii
functions, deprecated in Python 3.9, are now also removed:a2b_hqx()
,b2a_hqx()
;rlecode_hqx()
,rledecode_hqx()
.
The
binascii.crc_hqx()
function remains available.(Contributed by Victor Stinner in bpo-45085.)
Optimizations¶
Compiler now optimizes simple C-style formatting with literal format containing only format codes
%s
,%r
and%a
and makes it as fast as corresponding f-string expression. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in bpo-28307.)“Zero-cost” exceptions are implemented. The cost of
try
statements is almost eliminated when no exception is raised. (Contributed by Mark Shannon in bpo-40222.)Method calls with keywords are now faster due to bytecode changes which avoid creating bound method instances. Previously, this optimization was applied only to method calls with purely positional arguments. (Contributed by Ken Jin and Mark Shannon in bpo-26110, based on ideas implemented in PyPy.)
.pdbrc
is now read with'utf-8'
encoding.
CPython bytecode changes¶
Added a new
CALL_METHOD_KW
opcode. Calls a method in a similar fashion asCALL_METHOD
, but also supports keyword arguments. Works in tandem withLOAD_METHOD
.
Build Changes¶
Deprecated¶
Removed¶
The
@asyncio.coroutine
decorator enabling legacy generator-based coroutines to be compatible with async/await code. The function has been deprecated since Python 3.8 and the removal was initially scheduled for Python 3.10. Useasync def
instead. (Contributed by Illia Volochii in bpo-43216.)asyncio.coroutines.CoroWrapper
used for wrapping legacy generator-based coroutine objects in the debug mode. (Contributed by Illia Volochii in bpo-43216.)
Porting to Python 3.11¶
This section lists previously described changes and other bugfixes that may require changes to your code.
Changes in the Python API¶
Prohibited passing non-
concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor
executors toloop.set_default_executor()
following a deprecation in Python 3.8. (Contributed by Illia Volochii in bpo-43234.)open()
,io.open()
,codecs.open()
andfileinput.FileInput
no longer accept'U'
(“universal newline”) in the file mode. This flag was deprecated since Python 3.3. In Python 3, the “universal newline” is used by default when a file is open in text mode. The newline parameter ofopen()
controls how universal newlines works. (Contributed by Victor Stinner in bpo-37330.)
C API Changes¶
Add a new
PyType_GetName()
function to get type’s short name. (Contributed by Hai Shi in bpo-42035.)Add a new
PyType_GetQualName()
function to get type’s qualified name. (Contributed by Hai Shi in bpo-42035.)
New Features¶
Porting to Python 3.11¶
The old trashcan macros (
Py_TRASHCAN_SAFE_BEGIN
/Py_TRASHCAN_SAFE_END
) are now deprecated. They should be replaced by the new macrosPy_TRASHCAN_BEGIN
andPy_TRASHCAN_END
.A tp_dealloc function that has the old macros, such as:
static void mytype_dealloc(mytype *p) { PyObject_GC_UnTrack(p); Py_TRASHCAN_SAFE_BEGIN(p); ... Py_TRASHCAN_SAFE_END }
should migrate to the new macros as follows:
static void mytype_dealloc(mytype *p) { PyObject_GC_UnTrack(p); Py_TRASHCAN_BEGIN(p, mytype_dealloc) ... Py_TRASHCAN_END }
Note that
Py_TRASHCAN_BEGIN
has a second argument which should be the deallocation function it is in.To support older Python versions in the same codebase, you can define the following macros and use them throughout the code (credit: these were copied from the
mypy
codebase):#if PY_MAJOR_VERSION >= 3 && PY_MINOR_VERSION >= 8 # define CPy_TRASHCAN_BEGIN(op, dealloc) Py_TRASHCAN_BEGIN(op, dealloc) # define CPy_TRASHCAN_END(op) Py_TRASHCAN_END #else # define CPy_TRASHCAN_BEGIN(op, dealloc) Py_TRASHCAN_SAFE_BEGIN(op) # define CPy_TRASHCAN_END(op) Py_TRASHCAN_SAFE_END(op) #endif
The
PyType_Ready()
function now raises an error if a type is defined with thePy_TPFLAGS_HAVE_GC
flag set but has no traverse function (PyTypeObject.tp_traverse
). (Contributed by Victor Stinner in bpo-44263.)Heap types with the
Py_TPFLAGS_IMMUTABLETYPE
flag can now inherit the PEP 590 vectorcall protocol. Previously, this was only possible for static types. (Contributed by Erlend E. Aasland in bpo-43908)
Deprecated¶
Removed¶
PyFrame_BlockSetup()
andPyFrame_BlockPop()
have been removed. (Contributed by Mark Shannon in bpo-40222.)Deprecate the following functions to configure the Python initialization:
PySys_HasWarnOptions()
_Py_SetProgramFullPath()
Use the new
PyConfig
API of the Python Initialization Configuration instead (PEP 587). (Contributed by Victor Stinner in bpo-44113.)The following deprecated functions and methods are removed in the
gettext
module:lgettext()
,ldgettext()
,lngettext()
andldngettext()
.Function
bind_textdomain_codeset()
, methodsoutput_charset()
andset_output_charset()
, and the codeset parameter of functionstranslation()
andinstall()
are also removed, since they are only used for thel*gettext()
functions. (Contributed by Dong-hee Na and Serhiy Storchaka in bpo-44235.)The behavior of returning a value from a
TestCase
andIsolatedAsyncioTestCase
test methods (other than the defaultNone
value), is now deprecated.