Leap into the new year with our top picks for the best features and tutorials for forward-looking Pythonistas. Credit: CCO It’s a new year, and we feel fine! 2024 was a breakout year for our favorite programming language, and we have a feeling 2025 will be even bigger. For this first Python report of the year, we’re offering our lineup of the most helpful, newsworthy, eye-opening—and, yes, popular—Python articles and tutorials recently published on InfoWorld. The best new features and fixes in Python 3.13Start the new year with an all-new, groundbreaking version of Python that makes many good things even better. 11 tips for speeding up Python programsDon’t let slow code leave you behind in 2025. Here’s what you need to keep in mind when optimizing Python apps. Get started with the free-threaded build of PythonBreak free with an alternate runtime that takes a whole new approach to threads in Python. Life without Python’s ‘dead batteries’How will we ever live without the standard library modules that bit the dust in 2024? Here’s how to replace the ones you need. How to install Python the smart wayDon’t let installation snags, holdups, and obstacles get in your way. Here’s how to install Python like a boss. 4 keys to writing modern PythonHere’s what you need to know (and do) if you want to write Python like it’s 2025, not 2005. How to use uv, the super-fast Python package installerLast but not least, explore one of the possible futures of Python package management. This hands-on guide will take you there.