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Python 3.15's Underrated Features

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Python 3.15 introduces significant improvements to structured concurrency with the new TaskGroup.cancel method, allowing developers to gracefully cancel entire task groups without raising exceptions. This simplifies complex async code patterns that previously required custom exception handling and context managers to achieve clean interruption points.

Context managers now function properly as decorators for async functions, generators, and async iterators thanks to enhanced ContextDecorator behavior. The release also adds thread safety for iterators through new threading utilities like serialize_iterator and concurrent_tee, enabling cleaner abstractions when working with multi-threaded data streams.

Additional enhancements include a new xor operation for collections.Counter objects and immutable JSON representation capabilities via frozendict. These improvements expand Python's standard library with more robust data manipulation tools while maintaining backwards compatibility with existing codebases.