- colorized text in the terminal
- argparse module
- descriptors
- async await (PEP 492, Python 3.5)
- async comprehensions
- asyncio (note: asynchat and asyncore were deprecated)
- global, nonlocal
breakpoint() and pdb- “assignment expression” (aka “walrus operator”)
:= (new in v3.8)
- functions:
/ and * in param list (positional-only params, v3.8)
- you can now merge and update dicts with
| and |= (see also existing dict.update and {**d1, **d2}) (v3.9)
- structural pattern matching (PEP 634):
match, case
- as of v3.10, the distutils module is deprecated.