A summary of Python news for the month of July 2023:

• Python without the GIL, for good

• LPython: a new Python Compiler

• Pydantic 2 is getting usable

• PEP 387 defines “Soft Deprecation”, getopt and optparse soft deprecated

• Cython 3.0 released with better pure Python support

• PEP 722 – Dependency specification for single-file scripts

• Python VSCode support gets faster

• Paint in the terminal