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PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #704: Python 3.14 Released and More (Oct. 14, 2025)
Python 3.14 is the focus of this PyCoder's Weekly edition, with coverage of new features. Real Python offers articles, a video course, and a quiz exploring 3.14's enhancements. Performance comparisons across Python versions, including JIT and free-threaded modes, are detailed. New asyncio features and a free-threaded Python library compatibility checker are also presented. Articles discuss lock file standardization, a PySpark SQL guide, and a complete functions reference. The issue touches upon the "Open Infrastructure Is Not Free" statement by the Python Software Foundation. There's a piece on exploring Alberta's pipelines using open data, along with lazy imports with wrapt. A podcast discusses Astral's new package manager, pyx, and pytest 2.6.0's release is covered. Articles analyze Django's ORM and explore context managers plus string formatting. Finally, various projects and code snippets are listed, and numerous Python events are advertised.