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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
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

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