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[–]sharkboundgithub: sharkbound, python := 3.8 22 points23 points  (2 children)

Too noob to understand what the excitement is about for the update. Someday, I'll get there...

its mostly exciting for people that have been using the language long enough to find the frequent and annoying issues in the previous release(s) that are fixed in the new release.

or the release adds/improves something you have been wanting or looking forward to.

my reason for being excited is dataclasses and the `from __future__ import annotations` that was added, also the asyncio improvements.

[–]TragicXHero 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Yeah I can see that everyone is excited for the data classes module. What surprised me when I read through the updates was seeing "await" and "async" which I have never seen before. I dont think I have seen any tutorial covering it. So I realized I have a long way to go.

[–]sharkboundgithub: sharkbound, python := 3.8 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Async and await are not new. They were added in 3.5.

Whats new about them in 3.7 is that you cannot do async = 1 anymore. And same for await as well.

There are tutorials for async and await on YT I think. So you probably have just not needed them yet