Many of its major features have also been backported to the backwards-compatible, though now-unsupported, Python 2.6 and 2.7. Python 3.0, a major, backwards-incompatible release, was released on Decem after a long period of testing. However, the most important change was to the development process itself, with a shift to a more transparent and community-backed process. Python 2.0 was released on October 16, 2000, with many major new features, including a cycle-detecting garbage collector (in addition to reference counting) for memory management and support for Unicode. Python was named after the BBC TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus. (However, Van Rossum stepped down as leader on July 12, 2018. Van Rossum is Python's principal author, and his continuing central role in deciding the direction of Python is reflected in the title given to him by the Python community, Benevolent Dictator for Life (BDFL). The programming language Python was conceived in the late 1980s, and its implementation was started in December 1989 by Guido van Rossum at CWI in the Netherlands as a successor to ABC capable of exception handling and interfacing with the Amoeba operating system. Rooms, and mailing lists is expected to follow the PSF Code of Conduct.Main article: Python (programming language) If you want to get involved head over to GitHub to get the source code, look at our development documentation and feel free to jump on the developer mailing lists and chat rooms:Įveryone interacting in the pip project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat

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