The latest releases of Python are versions 3.8.13, 3.9.13 and 3.10.5. Python 3.11 is currently in beta, with beta 3 released at the beginning of June 2022, and is due to be released in October 2022.

Python's Wikipedia entry says there are 2.5 billion monthly active users of Python, which makes it as big a platform as Windows and Android.

SEE: The IT skills gap is getting worse. Here are 10 ways you can avoid a crisis None of the new versions of Python – 3.10.2, 3.9.1, and 3.11.0a4 – contain Windows installers due to a ...

OK, so one of the best things about Python is that it is a general-purpose programming language. Yes, we do mean that it can in almost all situations, a Jack of All Trades if you will.

When you choose Python for software development, you get a large language ecosystem with a wealth of packages covering all manner of programming needs. But in addition to libraries for everything ...

In a Q&A, Python programming language creator Guido van Rossum said it was "almost taboo to talk about a Python 4 in a serious sense" following the troubled migration from Python 2.0 to Python 3.0.