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Since 7 October 2024, Python 3.13 is the latest stable release, and it and, for few more months, 3.12 are the only releases with active support including for bug fixes (as opposed to just for security) and Python 3.9, [55] is the oldest supported version of Python (albeit in the 'security support' phase), due to Python 3.8 reaching end-of-life.
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is an American nonprofit organization devoted to the Python programming language, [3] launched on March 6, 2001. The mission of the foundation is to foster development of the Python community and is responsible for various processes within the Python community, including developing the core Python distribution, managing intellectual rights, developer ...
By version 1.4, Python had acquired several new features. Notable among these are the Modula-3 inspired keyword arguments (which are also similar to Common Lisp's keyword arguments) and built-in support for complex numbers. Also included is a basic form of data hiding by name mangling, though this is easily bypassed. [15]
QGIS uses Python for scripting and plugin-development; Rhinoceros 3D version 5.0 [18] and its visual-scripting language Grasshopper uses IronPython [19] Rhythmbox; Scribus; 3DSlicer, medical image visualisation and analysis software. Python is available for algorithm implementation, analysis pipelines, and GUI creation.
Anaconda is an open source [9] [10] data science and artificial intelligence distribution platform for Python and R programming languages.Developed by Anaconda, Inc., [11] an American company [1] founded in 2012, [11] the platform is used to develop and manage data science and AI projects. [9]
Once Microsoft's extended support period expires for an older version of Windows, the project will no longer support that version of Windows in the next major (X.Y.0) release of Python. However, bug fix releases (0.0.Z) for each release branch will retain support for all versions of Windows that were supported in the initial X.Y.0 release.
Since version 3.1, updates have been indicated by adding an extra digit at the end, so that the version number asymptotically approaches the number π, so 3.14 effectively means 3.2 in semantic versioning. (This is a form of unary numbering; the version number is the number of digits.) As of February 2021, the version number is 3.141592653 (3.9).
The default string primitive in Go, [50] Julia, Rust, Swift (since version 5), [51] and PyPy [52] uses UTF-8 internally in all cases. Python (since version 3.3) uses UTF-8 internally for Python C API extensions [53] [54] and sometimes for strings [53] [55] and a future version of Python is planned to store strings as UTF-8 by default.