PSF is urging its legion of Python users to upgrade systems to Python 3.8.8 or 3.9.2, in particular to address the remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability that's tracked as CVE-2021-3177.

Python, the most popular programming language today, has reached version 3.10, marking the next major release since the decade-long transition from Python 2.7. Tiobe, the compiler of a language ...