So we might get true overloading in Python one day, or its advantages might be superseded by other mechanisms. Many language compilers employ tail recursion optimizations, where functions that ...

Recursion has more expressive power than iterative looping constructs. I say this because a while loop is equivalent to a tail recursive function and recursive functions need not be tail recursive.

A faster interpreter, more intelligible errors, more powerful type hints, and a slew of other speedups and tweaks are now ready to try out. The Python programming language releases new versions ...