PyPy v7.1 released; now uses UTF-8 internally for Unicode strings

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PyPy v7.1 released; now uses UTF-8 internally for Unicode strings

The PyPy team is proud to release version 7.1.0 of PyPy, which includes
two different interpreters:

PyPy2.7, which is an interpreter supporting the syntax and the features of
Python 2.7

PyPy3.6-beta: this is the second official release of PyPy to support 3.6
features, although it is still considered beta quality. You can download the v7.1 releases here:

We would like to thank our donors for the continued support of the PyPy
project. This PyPy release supports:

 

x86 machines on most common operating systems
(Linux 32/64 bits, Mac OS X 64 bits, Windows 32 bits, OpenBSD, FreeBSD)

big- and little-endian variants of PPC64 running Linux

 ARM32 although we do not supply downloadable binaries at this time

s390x running Linux

What else is new?

Source: morepypy.blogspot.com