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This document lists the release dates and versions of Python from its initial implementation in December 1989 through version 3.0 released in December 2008. It shows Python growing from early internal releases at CWI to wider releases to the public with each new version, which were released periodically around 1-2 years apart on average. The document also provides a brief introduction to why Python was created and why it is a useful programming language for beginners and professionals alike.

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This document lists the release dates and versions of Python from its initial implementation in December 1989 through version 3.0 released in December 2008. It shows Python growing from early internal releases at CWI to wider releases to the public with each new version, which were released periodically around 1-2 years apart on average. The document also provides a brief introduction to why Python was created and why it is a useful programming language for beginners and professionals alike.

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TEST SLIDE

December 1989

Release Date
December, 1989
1990
February 20, 1991
February, 1991
Autumn, 1991
December 24, 1991
January 2, 1992
April 6, 1992
Unknown, 1992
January 9, 1993
July 29, 1993
January 26, 1994
February 15, 1994
May 4, 1994
July 14, 1994

Version
Implementation
started
Internal releases at
CWI
0.9.0 (released to
alt.sources)
0.9.1
0.9.2
0.9.4
0.9.5 (Macintosh
only)
0.9.6
0.9.7beta
0.9.8
0.9.9
1.0.0
1.0.2
1.0.3
1.0.4

October 11, 1994

1.1

November 10, 1994

1.1.1

April 13, 1995

1.2

October 13, 1995

1.3

October 25, 1996

1.4

January 3, 1998

1.5

October 31, 1998

1.5.1

April 13, 1999

1.5.2

September 5, 2000

1.6

October 16, 2000

2.0

April 17, 2001

2.1

December 21, 2001

2.2

July 29, 2003

2.3

November 30, 2004

2.4

September 16, 2006

2.5

October 1, 2008

2.6

December 3, 2008

3.0

After 20 years.
Guido van Rossum

Take home message1


On your holidays do something
useful

Why you need to learn Programming


(why to use Python)

Why Python?
Read your code

Write your code

Beginner's,

Professionals, Computer Scientists

Python runs everywhere

Python is Open
Freely usable and distributable,
even for commercial use

Extensions and modules


Written in C, C++ (or Java for Jython
or .NET languages for IronPython)
Powerful Libraries like Scipy and
pylab etc

Who uses Python ?

Agile software development

Better support ?

Less code is better.


(Better way to say Hello World?)

JAVA

public class HelloWorld {


public static void main(String[] args)
{
System.out.println(Hello, World);
}
}

Python
print Hello,
World

Object Oriented

Forget Curly braces and


Semi-colon

{}
;

Only Beautiful shape

Python Software
Foundation

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
adiverseand international community of
Python programmers.

Variants of Python
Python acts as a shell
IDLE and IPython
(visual style of the Python shell, Autocompletion, Retention of session state
and syntax highlighting)

Lot of resources

Now lets have hands on with


python

THANK
YOU

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