Fixing the dictionary with Python 3.14

Yes, but not the dict kind of dictionary. When working on CPython, we often find obscure bugs elsewhere, in compilers, operating systems and elsewhere: Rust/LLVM, clang-19, clang 21 and BOLT GCC 13, GCC 15, glibc, readline and curses musl fma Since Python 3.8, the release notes have a section called “And now for something completely different”. These have included Monty Python sketches, astrophysics facts and poetry. For Python 3.14, I’m doing all things π, pie and [mag]pie (more here). As part of the research for this important task, I looked up pi in the Oxford English Dictionary. As we all recall from the Python 3.14.0b1 release notes, William Jones was the first person to use the π symbol to denote the circle’s circumference to its diameter in his Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos (1706): However, the OED’s first citation had a markup bug: I duly reported this to the OED in July 2024; and by the next time I looked it up, in June 2025, it was fixed! Hooray! Header photo: Part of the…