The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international …

Jun 22, 2001 · Python was created in the early 1990s by Guido van Rossum at Stichting Mathematisch Centrum in the Netherlands as a successor of a language called ABC. Guido remains Python’s …

1 day ago · This page is licensed under the Python Software Foundation License Version 2. Examples, recipes, and other code in the documentation are additionally licensed under the Zero Clause BSD …

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Python 3.13 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations compared to Python 3.12. 3.13.2 is the latest maintenance release, …

Mar 12, 2010 · This is the tenth maintenance release of Python 3.12 Python 3.12.10 is the latest maintenance release of Python 3.12, and the last full maintenance release. Subsequent releases of …

Why does Python use methods for some functionality (e.g. list.index ()) but functions for other (e.g. len (list))? Why is join () a string method instead of a list or tuple method?

Python 3.13 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations compared to Python 3.12. 3.13.5 is the fifth maintenance release of …

2 days ago · In addition to int and float, Python supports other types of numbers, such as Decimal and Fraction. Python also has built-in support for complex numbers, and uses the j or J suffix to indicate …

2 days ago · The semantics of non-essential built-in object types and of the built-in functions and modules are described in The Python Standard Library. For an informal introduction to the language, …