# What’s New In Python 3.14

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This article explains the new features in Python 3.14, compared to 3.13.

For full details, see the changelog.

Note

Prerelease users should be aware that this document is currently in draft form. It will be updated substantially as Python 3.14 moves towards release, so it’s worth checking back even after reading earlier versions.

## Summary – Release highlights

## New Features

## Other Language Changes

## New Modules

- None yet.

## Improved Modules

### ast

Added `ast.compare()` for comparing two ASTs. (Contributed by Batuhan Taskaya and Jeremy Hylton in bpo-15987.)

## Optimizations

## Deprecated

- Passing a complex number as the real or imag argument in the `complex()` constructor is now deprecated; it should only be passed as a single positional argument. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in gh-109218.)

## Removed

### argparse

- Remove the type, choices, and metavar parameters of `argparse.BooleanOptionalAction`. They were deprecated since 3.12.

### ast

- Remove the following classes. They were all deprecated since Python 3.8, and have emitted deprecation warnings since Python 3.12:

  - `ast.Num`

  - `ast.Str`

  - `ast.Bytes`

  - `ast.NameConstant`

  - `ast.Ellipsis`

  Use `ast.Constant` instead. As a consequence of these removals, user-defined `visit_Num`, `visit_Str`, `visit_Bytes`, `visit_NameConstant` and `visit_Ellipsis` methods on custom `ast.NodeVisitor` subclasses will no longer be called when the `NodeVisitor` subclass is visiting an AST. Define a `visit_Constant` method instead.

  Also, remove the following deprecated properties on `ast.Constant`, which were present for compatibility with the now-removed AST classes:

  - `ast.Constant.n`

  - `ast.Constant.s`

  Use `ast.Constant.value` instead.

  (Contributed by Alex Waygood in gh-119562.)

### collections.abc

- Remove `collections.abc.ByteString`. It had previously raised a `DeprecationWarning` since Python 3.12.

### email

- Remove the isdst parameter from `email.utils.localtime()`. (Contributed by Hugo van Kemenade in gh-118798.)

### importlib

- Remove deprecated `importlib.abc` classes:

  - `importlib.abc.ResourceReader`

  - `importlib.abc.Traversable`

  - `importlib.abc.TraversableResources`

  Use `importlib.resources.abc` classes instead:

  - `importlib.resources.abc.Traversable`

  - `importlib.resources.abc.TraversableResources`

  (Contributed by Jason R. Coombs and Hugo van Kemenade in gh-93963.)

### itertools

- Remove `itertools` support for copy, deepcopy, and pickle operations. These had previously raised a `DeprecationWarning` since Python 3.12. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in gh-101588.)

### pathlib

- Remove support for passing additional keyword arguments to `pathlib.Path`. In previous versions, any such arguments are ignored.

- Remove support for passing additional positional arguments to `pathlib.PurePath.relative_to()` and `is_relative_to()`. In previous versions, any such arguments are joined onto other.

#### pty

- Remove deprecated `pty.master_open()` and `pty.slave_open()`. They had previously raised a `DeprecationWarning` since Python 3.12. Use `pty.openpty()` instead. (Contributed by Nikita Sobolev in gh-118824.)

### sqlite3

- Remove `version` and `version_info` from `sqlite3`. (Contributed by Hugo van Kemenade in gh-118924.)

- Disallow using a sequence of parameters with named placeholders. This had previously raised a `DeprecationWarning` since Python 3.12; it will now raise a `sqlite3.ProgrammingError`. (Contributed by Erlend E. Aasland in gh-118928 and gh-101693.)

### typing

- Remove `typing.ByteString`. It had previously raised a `DeprecationWarning` since Python 3.12.

### Others

- Using `NotImplemented` in a boolean context will now raise a `TypeError`. It had previously raised a `DeprecationWarning` since Python 3.9. (Contributed by Jelle Zijlstra in gh-118767.)

- The `int()` built-in no longer delegates to `__trunc__()`. Classes that want to support conversion to integer must implement either `__int__()` or `__index__()`. (Contributed by Mark Dickinson in gh-119743.)

## Porting to Python 3.14

This section lists previously described changes and other bugfixes that may require changes to your code.

## Build Changes

## C API Changes

### New Features

### Porting to Python 3.14

### Deprecated

- Macros `Py_IS_NAN`, `Py_IS_INFINITY` and `Py_IS_FINITE` are soft deprecated, use instead `isnan`, `isinf` and `isfinite` available from `math.h` since C99. (Contributed by Sergey B Kirpichev in gh-119613.)

### Removed

- Creating `immutable types` with mutable bases was deprecated since 3.12 and now raises a `TypeError`.