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What was the initial end-of-life date for Python 2.7?
Which Python versions currently receive active support?
What feature was added to Python 3.10?
Why were security updates expedited in 2021 and 2022?
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What is the purpose of the 2to3 utility in Python 3?
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What is Python's design philosophy?
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What is Python?
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Who is the inventor of Python?
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What is Python often described as due to its comprehensive standard library?
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What was the release year of Python 2.0?
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Study Notes
Python Overview
- High-level, general-purpose programming language
- Emphasizes code readability with significant indentation
- Dynamically typed and garbage-collected
- Supports multiple programming paradigms: structured, object-oriented, and functional programming
History
- Created in the late 1980s by Guido van Rossum as a successor to ABC programming language
- First released in 1991 as Python 0.9.0
- Python 2.0 released in 2000, with major new features
- Python 3.0 released in 2008, with many major new features and backward incompatibility with earlier versions
- Python 2.7.18, released in 2020, was the last release of Python 2
Features
- Comprehensive standard library, often described as "batteries included"
- Supports multiple programming paradigms
- Unicode support
- List comprehensions
- Cycle-detecting garbage collection
- Reference counting
Development
- Guido van Rossum was the lead developer and "benevolent dictator for life" until 2018
- In 2019, a five-member Steering Council was elected to lead the project
- Python 2.7's end-of-life was initially set for 2015, then postponed to 2020
- Currently, only Python 3.8 and later are supported
Releases
- Python 3.0 was released in 2008, with many major new features
- Python 3.9 released in 2020, with security fixes
- Python 3.10 released in 2021, with security fixes and increased program execution speed
- Python 3.11 released in 2022, with improved error reporting and expanded exception handling functionality
- Python 3.12 released in 2023, with the new keyword type and active support
Security
- Security issues were fixed in 2023, including remote code execution and web-cache poisoning
- Python 3.9.13, 3.10.4, and 3.8.13 were expedited due to security issues
- Python 3.12 is the stable release, with active support and security fixes
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Learn about Python, a high-level, general-purpose programming language with a design philosophy emphasizing code readability. Discover its features, including dynamic typing, garbage collection, and support for multiple programming paradigms.
