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JIT and GIL removal are not even my most anticipated Python 3.13 features
Fun story: I came to Python through data analysis - so I wasn't a "python/programming expert" - and for an unreasonably long time used ...
I can't remember exactly how, if it was from a blog post, a forum reply or just perusing the standard lib documentation, but I then stumbled into shelve. So, if I'm reading this right - and I think I am - Python will soon have an efficient and widely compatible persistent key-value store based on SQLite baked into the standard lib. This might be rather trivial for moderate and especially advanced programmers, but if someone's starting out or, frankly, doesn't want to invest time in something more complex, this should completely scratch that "persistent dict" itch that most of us had at some point and many still do.
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