Re: Proposal to update Unicode handling for German sharp S (ß / ẞ) in Python’s case conversion methods

2025-10-17 Thread Chris Angelico via Python-list
On Sat, 18 Oct 2025 at 13:44, wrote: > > Dear Python Developers, > > I would like to bring attention to an inconsistency and legacy behavior > regarding the handling of the German sharp S characters in Python’s string > case conversion methods. > This isn't Python's decision. The definition of

Proposal to update Unicode handling for German sharp S (ß / ẞ) in Python’s case conversion methods

2025-10-17 Thread python
Dear Python Developers, I would like to bring attention to an inconsistency and legacy behavior regarding the handling of the German sharp S characters in Python’s string case conversion methods. Currently, Python’s .upper() method converts the lowercase sharp S (U+00DF, “ß”) to the uppercase

[RELEASE] Python 3.12.12, 3.11.14, 3.10.19 and 3.9.24 are now available!

2025-10-17 Thread Thomas Wouters
Old-timer Release Party We couldn’t just let Hugo have fun with 3.14.0, so here are new security releases of the venerated Python versions, 3.12 through 3.9! Security content in these releases XML-related • gh-139312 : Upgraded bundled libexpat

Re: Python 3.14.0 (final) is here!

2025-10-17 Thread Jean-François Bachelet via Python-list
Hello Python Team ^^) It's indeed VERY sad that you would kill these mailing list !  we are a lot NOT using hungry ressources stuff like discuss, discord, or others that require a web browser to read at least a mailing list is way more frugal. and internet friendly. Cheers, Jeff Le 07

[RELEASE] Python 3.13.8 is now available.

2025-10-17 Thread Thomas Wouters
Python 3.13.8 is now available (but 3.14.0 probably deserves more attention ;p) https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3138/ This is the eighth maintenance release of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is the newest previous major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many