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Python, named after Monty Python's Flying Circus, has evolved significantly since its initial release, with Python 2.0 debuting in 2000 and Python 3.0 in 2008. As of October 2024, Python 3.13 is the latest stable version, introducing features like an improved REPL and an experimental JIT compiler, while older versions like Python 2.7 are no longer officially supported. Security updates have been prioritized in recent years due to vulnerabilities affecting all versions.

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Python, named after Monty Python's Flying Circus, has evolved significantly since its initial release, with Python 2.0 debuting in 2000 and Python 3.0 in 2008. As of October 2024, Python 3.13 is the latest stable version, introducing features like an improved REPL and an experimental JIT compiler, while older versions like Python 2.7 are no longer officially supported. Security updates have been prioritized in recent years due to vulnerabilities affecting all versions.

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he name Python is said to come from the British comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus.

[48]

Python 2.0 was released on 16 October 2000, with many major new features such as list
comprehensions, cycle-detecting garbage collection, reference counting, and Unicode
support.[49] Python 2.7's end-of-life was initially set for 2015, then postponed to 2020 out of
concern that a large body of existing code could not easily be forward-ported to Python 3.
[50][51] No further security patches or other improvements will be released for it.[52][53]
While Python 2.7 and older versions are officially unsupported, a different unofficial Python
implementation, PyPy, continues to support Python 2, i.e. "2.7.18+" (plus 3.10), with the plus
meaning (at least some) "backported security updates".[54]

Python 3.0 was released on 3 December 2008, with some new semantics and changed syntax.
At least every Python release since (now unsupported) 3.5 has added some syntax to the
language, and a few later releases have dropped outdated modules, or changed semantics, at
least in a minor way.

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.[56][57] Starting with 3.13, it
and later versions have 2 years of full support (up from one and a half), followed by 3 years of
security support (for same total support as before).

Security updates were expedited in 2021 (and again twice in 2022, and more fixed in 2023 and
in September 2024 for Python 3.12.6 down to 3.8.20), since all Python versions were insecure
(including 2.7[58]) because of security issues leading to possible remote code execution[59]
and web-cache poisoning.[60]

Python 3.10 added the | union type operator[61] and the match and case keywords (for
structural pattern matching statements). 3.11 expanded exception handling functionality.
Python 3.12 added the new keyword type. Notable changes in 3.11 from 3.10 include
increased program execution speed and improved error reporting.[62] Python 3.11 claims to
be between 10 and 60% faster than Python 3.10, and Python 3.12 adds another 5% on top of
that. It also has improved error messages (again improved in 3.14), and many other changes.

Python 3.13 introduces more syntax for types, a new and improved interactive interpreter
(REPL), featuring multi-line editing and color support; an incremental garbage collector
(producing shorter pauses for collection in programs with a lot of objects, and addition to the
improved speed in 3.11 and 3.12), and an experimental just-in-time (JIT) compiler (such
features, can/needs to be enabled specifically for the increase in speed),[63] and an
experimental free-threaded build mode, which disables the global interpreter lock (GIL),
allowing threads to run more concurrently, that latter feature enabled with python3.13t or
python3.13t.exe.

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