This is a static archive of the Python wiki, which was retired in February 2026 due to lack of usage and the resources necessary to serve it — predominately to bots, crawlers, and LLM companies.
Pages are preserved as they were at the time of archival. For current information, please visit python.org.
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As of late 2019, Python 3.x is the current version of the language and early Python 3.0 resources and planning are out of date. Python 3 development work is done with the main project tools and systems. The most recent version of this page from 2008 is largely of historical interest.

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