Summary -
In this topic, we described about the below sections -
At CWI in Netherland, the python language execution was begun in the year 1989 December by Guido Van Rossum.
In the year 1991 (February), Guido Van Rossum was published the code (version 0.9.0).
Python 1.0 was landed with new features in the year 1994. The new features are filter, lambda, reduce and map.
Python 2.0 added new features such as garbage collection system, list comprehensions.
On the date of December 3, 2008, Python 3.0 was released, and it is also called as "Py3K". It was designed to repair fundamental flaw of the language.
ABC programming language is stated to be the predecessor of Python language that contains capacity of Exception Handling and interfacing with Amoeba Operating System.
Python was influenced by the programming languages - Modula-3 and ABC language.
Python versions history -
Since 1994 to present, many versions of the Python programming language got released. The below table shows the Python major release and its release date.
| Python Version | Released Date |
|---|---|
| 1.0 | January 1994 |
| 1.5 | December 31, 1997 |
| 1.6 | September 5, 2000 |
| 2.0 | October 16, 2000 |
| 2.1 | April 17, 2001 |
| 2.2 | December 21, 2001 |
| 2.3 | July 29, 2003 |
| 2.4 | November 30, 2004 |
| 2.5 | September 19, 2006 |
| 2.7 | July 3, 2010 |
| 3.0 | December 3, 2008 |
| 3.1 | June 27, 2009 |
| 3.2 | February 20, 2011 |
| 3.3 | September 29, 2012 |
| 3.4 | March 16, 2014 |
| 3.5 | September 13, 2015 |
| 3.6 | December 23, 2016 |
| 3.7 | June 27, 2018 |
| 3.8 | October 14, 2019 |
| 3.8.3 (current as of June 2020) | May 13, 2020 |