[$] New features in Python 3.6

The Python 3.6 release occurred on December 23, only one week later than planned all the way back in October 2015. Python 3.6 adds a number of new features, including more support for asynchronous operations (generators and comprehensions), a filesystem path protocol, a new literal string formatting option, two random-number-related features, a frame evaluation API for debuggers and just-in-time (JIT) compilation, and more. Some of these features have been described in LWN articles along the way, but many haven't, so an overview of the highlights of the new release is in order.

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