History
Created by Guido van Rossum in the latest 1980s at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) a research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands
Successor to ABC language, capable of exception handling and interfacing with the Amoeba operating system.
Implementation started in December 1989
Version 0.9.0 - February 1991 Classes with inheritance, exception handling and the core data types
Version 1.0 - January 1994 Functional programming tools: lambda, map, filter and reduce
Version 1.6 - September 2000
Version 2.0 - October 2000 Introduced list comprehensions and garbage collection
Version 2.6 & 3.0 - December 2008
Version 2.7 & 3.1 - June 2009
Latest version: 2.7.18 – April 2020 & 3.10.3 – March 2022
Attention
Python 2.7 support ended on January 1, 2020