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About
- Interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language
- Dynamically typed and garbage-collected
- Allows procedural, object-oriented, and functional programming
- Comprehensive standard library
Python Standards
Python 3
- Released in 2008
- Major revision, Not completely backward-compatible
Version |
Latest micro version |
Release date |
End of full support |
End of security fixes |
3.0 |
3.0.1 |
2008-12-03 |
2009-02 |
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3.5 |
3.5.9 |
2015-09-13 |
2017-08 |
2020-09 |
3.6 |
3.6.10 |
2016-12-23 |
2018-12 |
2021-12 |
3.7 |
3.7.7 |
2018-06-27 |
2020-06 |
2023-06 |
3.8 |
3.8.3 |
2019-10-14 |
2021-04 |
2024-10 |
3.9 |
3.9.0 |
2020-10-05 |
2022-05 |
2025-10 |
3.10 |
|
2021-10-25 |
2023-05 |
2026-10 |
Python 2
- Released in 2000
- End of support on Jan 1, 2020
Version |
Latest micro version |
Release date |
End of full support |
End of security fixes |
2.6 |
2.6.9 |
2008-10-01 |
2010-08-24 |
2013-10-29 |
2.7 |
2.7.18 |
2010-07-03 |
2020-01-01 |
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Packaging formats
Wheels packaging format
- Packaging format for Python distribution
- Introduced by PEP (Python Enhancement Proposal) 427 in 2012
- Replaced eggs, an unofficial standard from setuptools in 2004.
- .whl extension
See also