Python 3.14, named after a famous irrational constant, has arrived in preview. Plus new goodness in Cython 3.1, using Python’s structural pattern matching, querying the NanoCube, and more.

Today, constants in Python are mostly a matter of convention. Using a name that’s in all-caps and snake case — e.g., DO_NOT_RESTART — is a hint that the variable is intended to be a constant.

Scientists observed a Burmese python swallowing a 77-pound white-tailed deer, nearly 70 percent of the snake’s mass. The non-native snakes have proliferated across more than a thousand square ...