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Guido van Rossum conceived Python in the late 1980s at CWI in the Netherlands as a successor to ABC capable of exception handling and interfacing with operating systems. Python 2.0 was released in 2000 with major new features like garbage collection and Unicode support. Python 3.0, released in 2008, was not backward compatible with many features backported to 2.6 and 2.7. Van Rossum was considered the Benevolent Dictator For Life of Python until 2018.

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Guido van Rossum conceived Python in the late 1980s at CWI in the Netherlands as a successor to ABC capable of exception handling and interfacing with operating systems. Python 2.0 was released in 2000 with major new features like garbage collection and Unicode support. Python 3.0, released in 2008, was not backward compatible with many features backported to 2.6 and 2.7. Van Rossum was considered the Benevolent Dictator For Life of Python until 2018.

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Python was conceived in the late 1980s[31] by Guido van Rossum at Centrum Wiskunde &

Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands as a successor to the ABC language (itself inspired by SETL)
[32]
, capable of exception handling and interfacing with the Amoeba operating system.[7] Its
implementation began in December 1989.[33] Van Rossum's long influence on Python is reflected in
the title given to him by the Python community: Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL) – a post from
which he gave himself permanent vacation on July 12, 2018.[34]
Python 2.0 was released on 16 October 2000 with many major new features, including a cycle-
detecting garbage collector and support for Unicode.[35]
Python 3.0 was released on 3 December 2008. It was a major revision of the language that is not
completely backward-compatible.[36] Many of its major features were backported to Python
2.6.x[37] and 2.7.x version series. Releases of Python 3 include the 2to3 utility, which automates (at
least partially) the translation of Python 2 code to Python 3.[38]
Python 2.7's end-of-life date was initially set at 2015 then postponed to 2020 out of concern that a
large body of existing code could not easily be forward-ported to Python 3. [39][40] In January 2017,
Google announced work on a Python 2.7 to Go transcompiler to improve performance under
concurrent workloads.[41]

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