Official support for free-threaded Python, an experimental JIT, and a smarter installation manager for Windows are among the goodies in Python 3.14. Now in a release candidate.

Slices in Python let you return chunks of data from strings, tuples, and lists. This is useful if you ever want to get a few items from a list, or if you want to grab a chunk of a string.

This post explains how to concatenate a string in Python. As well as how to build strings, search for substrings and much more.