Python programming was developed by Guido Van Rossum in the 1980s. He named this language on the famous show Monty Python’s Flying Circus”, a BBC comedy series from the 1970s.
Python programming is based on or influenced with two programming languages:-
- ABC language
- Modula-3
Though the Python language came into being in the early 1990s, yet it is competing with ever-popular languages such as C++, C, Java, etc. Although it is not perfect for every type of application, yet it has many strengths that make it a good choice for many situations.
There are different versions of python along the time. When it was published 1st time it is named as version 0.9.0.
A list of Python versions with its released date is given below:-
| Python 1.0 | 1994 |
| Python 1.5 | 1997 |
| Python 1.6 | 2000 |
| Python 2.0 | 2000 |
| Python 2.1 | 2001 |
| Python 2.2 | 2001 |
| Python 2.3 | 2003 |
| Python 2.4 | 2004 |
| Python 2.5 | 2006 |
| Python 2.6 | 2008 |
| Python 2.7 | 2010 |
| Python 3.0 | 2008 |
| Python 3.1 | 2009 |
| Python 3.2 | 2011 |
| Python 3.3 | 2012 |
| Python 3.4 | 2014 |
| Python 3.5 | 2015 |
| Python 3.6 | 2016 |
| Python 3.7 | 2018 |
| Python 3.8 | 2019 |
These are all the version of python that came over time.
