RFE: upgrade TD to Python >= 3.9

Wishlist and RFEs
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I’m starting to see more and more useful features in Python versions > 3.7, and I’d like to plant a seed to upgrade TD’s Python to a new version.

Here are some of the new features in Python > 3.7 I’d like to use:

  1. multiprocessing.shared_memory (python 3.8)
    This is my number one, it seems super useful to communicate large amounts of data (like numpy arrays) between TD and any external Python process I have started. I can already hack something like this using mmap, but this is so much more streamlined.

  2. Simpler updating of dictionaries with union (|) and in-place union (|=). You can use | to merge two dictionaries, while |= will update a dictionary in place (python 3.9)

z = x | y
  1. Debugging using f-strings. I use f-strings all the time, and this new debug feature is simple & sweet. Just add =. (python 3.8)
>>> python = 3.8
>>> f"{python=}"
'python=3.8'
  1. the walrus operator, which was quite a discussion, but it has landed now, see:
    Assignment Expressions: The Walrus Operator – Real Python (since python 3.8)

what are your favorites?

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Yeah, I expect this will happen as part of the upgrade to compiling for the ARM M1 architecture.

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