History of Python: Difference between revisions

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* Adding support for optional function annotations that can be used for informal type declarations or other purposes;<ref>[http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3107/ PEP 3197]</ref>

* Unifying the <code>str</code>/<code>unicode</code> types, representing text, and introducing a separate immutable <code>bytes</code> type; and a mostly corresponding mutable <code>bytearray</code> type, both of which represent arrays of [[byte]]s;<ref>[http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3137/ PEP 3137]: Immutable Bytes and Mutable Buffer</ref>

* Removing backward-compatibility features, including old-style classes, integer-truncating division, string exceptions, and implicit relative imports. And other stuff

==Influences from other languages==