Python Versions/Releases

Python Releases/Versions

Python is an interpreted, open source, interactive, highly portable, Object Oriented language.

Created in 1990 by Guido van Rossum and named after Monty Python.

Python is case sensitive language.
Everything is an object. And Objects always have a type.

Python 1 released in 1990

Python 2 release

   - Version 2.0.1 came out in mid-2001

   - Version 2.7.0 came out in mid-2010

   - Version 2.7.9 came out on 2014-12

   - Version 2.7.13 came out on 2016-12-17
   - Version 2.7.14 came out on 2017-09-16
   - Version 2.7.15 came out on 2018-05-01

[Python 2 is scheduled to be deprecated in 2020]

Python 3 release

   - Version 3.0.0 released on 2008-12-03

   - Version 3.1.2 released on early 2010

   - Version 3.4.3 released on 2015-02

   - Version 3.6.0 released on 2016-12-23

   - Version 3.5.3 released on 2017-01-17
   - Version 3.6.1 released on 2017-03-21
   - Version 3.6.2 released on 2017-07-17
   - Version 3.6.3 released on 2017-10-03
   - Version 3.6.4 released on 2017-12-19
   - Version 3.6.5 released on 2018-03-28

   - Version 3.6.6 released on 2018-06-27
   - Version 3.7.0 released on 2018-06-27
   - Version 3.6.7 released on 2018-10-20
   - Version 3.7.1 released on 2018-10-20
   - Version 3.6.8 released on 2018-12-24
   - Version 3.7.2 released on 2018-12-24

python -V  -- Will display Python version
python --version

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