Azure Functions, Microsoft's take on cloud-hosted, serverless, event-driven computing, now officially supports the Python programming language.

With Pulsar Functions, you can apply Python functions to pub/sub messages in Apache Pulsar to make machine learning predictions in real time. Here’s how.

A new JIT compiler, the first no-GIL edition of Python, better errors and typing enhancement, and the removal of dead batteries are all part of Python 3.13.