🚀 New PEP 778 – Supporting Symlinks in Wheels by Emma Harper Smith
Status: Deferred ⏳
Type: Standards Track 🚀
Created: May 18, 2024
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Status: Deferred ⏳
Type: Standards Track 🚀
Created: May 18, 2024
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Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)
PEP 778 – Supporting Symlinks in Wheels | peps.python.org
Wheels currently do not handle symlinks well, copying content instead of making symlinks when installed. To properly handle distributing libraries in wheels, we propose a new LINKS metadata file to handle symlinks in a platform portable manner. This spe...
PEP 590 – Vectorcall: a fast calling protocol for CPython is now Final at Python 3.8 🚀
🚀 New PEP 810 – Explicit lazy imports by Pablo Galindo, Germán Méndez Bravo, Thomas Wouters, Dino Viehland, Brittany Reynoso, Noah Kim, Tim Stumbaugh
Status: Draft 📝
Type: Standards Track 🚀
Created: October 02, 2025
Target Version: 3.15
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Status: Draft 📝
Type: Standards Track 🚀
Created: October 02, 2025
Target Version: 3.15
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PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports
👋 Hi everyone, We are very exited to share with you PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports: We’re proposing an opt-in lazy import syntax that defers module loading until first use, aiming for faster startup, lower memory, and clear semantics with zero overhead when…
PEP 768 – Safe external debugger interface for CPython is now Final at Python 3.14 🚀
PEP 779 – Criteria for supported status for free-threaded Python is now Final at Python 3.14 🚀
PEP 649 – Deferred Evaluation Of Annotations Using Descriptors is now Final at Python 3.14 🚀
PEP 799 – A dedicated ``profiling`` package for organizing Python profiling tools is now Accepted for Python 3.15 ✅