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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
Key tools
- Open source distributions: [CPython]] ](/AshokBhat/notes/wiki/[PyPy) | [Jython]] | WinPython
- Package manager: pip | conda
- Commercial distributions: [Anaconda]] ](/AshokBhat/notes/wiki/[[ActivePython)
- Repository: PyPI
- Libraries: [NumPy]] ](/AshokBhat/notes/wiki/[[SciPy) | Pandas
- Free Editors: Visual Studio Code | Spyder | PyDev | IDLE
- Paid Editors: PyCharm
- Debugger: pdb - The Python Debugger
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
Distributions
Open source
- CPython: Default, no JIT, slow
- PyPy: JIT, can be used in place of CPython
- Jython: Allows Java users to interop with Python. Converts Python to JVM Bytecode.
- IronPython: Allows C# users to interop with Python.
- WinPython: Free Windows Python Distribution
- Python Portable: CPython runtime in a self-contained package
Commercially backed
- Anaconda: Distribution backed by a commercial company. Uses conda packaging manager.
- [ActivePython]]: Commercial distribution. Uses [pip
See also