Python 3.15 goes global with UTF-8 support

Today all the cool languages and runtimes pledge allegiance to UTF-8, including Rust, Go, and Node.js (JavaScript itself prefers UTF-16 for internal encoding). Most code editors, from Visual Studio ...
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Python 3.15 arrives with lazy imports, UTF-8 by default and a faster JIT

Python 3.15 is out with explicit lazy imports, UTF-8 as the default encoding, frozendict and sentinel types, the Tachyon ...

Designing 'Same Characters' in Unicode: Separating Original Text and Search Keys in Python

The name looks the same on the screen, but I can't search for it.' If you try to fix this problem just by removing whitespace ...
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Python info-stealing malware uses Unicode to evade detection

A malicious Python package on PyPI uses Unicode as an obfuscation technique to evade detection while stealing and exfiltrating developers' account credentials and other sensitive data from compromised ...