[$] New features in Python 3.6

The Python 3.6 release occurred onDecember 23, only one week later than plannedall the wayback in October 2015. Python 3.6 adds a number of newfeatures, including more support for asynchronous operations (generatorsand comprehensions), a filesystem path protocol, a new literal stringformatting option, two random-number-related features, a frame evaluation APIfor debuggers and just-in-time (JIT) compilation, and more. Some of thesefeatures have been described in LWN articles along the way, but many haven't, so anoverview of the highlights of the new release is in order.

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