Английская Википедия:History of Python

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Old Python logo, 1990s–2006

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New Python logo, 2006–present

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Guido van Rossum in 2014

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. 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). (However, Van Rossum stepped down as leader on July 12, 2018.). Python was named after the BBC TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus.

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, along with a change to the development process itself, with a shift to a more transparent and community-backed process.

Python 3.0, a major, backwards-incompatible release, was released on December 3, 2008 after a long period of testing. Many of its major features have also been backported to the backwards-compatible, though now-unsupported, Python 2.6 and 2.7.

Early history

In February 1991, Van Rossum published the code (labeled version 0.9.0) to alt.sources. Already present at this stage in development were classes with inheritance, exception handling, functions, and the core datatypes of Шаблон:Code, Шаблон:Code, Шаблон:Code and so on. Also in this initial release was a module system borrowed from Modula-3; Van Rossum describes the module as "one of Python's major programming units". Python's exception model also resembles Modula-3's, with the addition of an Шаблон:Code clause. In 1994 comp.lang.python, the primary discussion forum for Python, was formed, marking a milestone in the growth of Python's userbase.

Version 1

Python reached version 1.0 in January 1994. The major new features included in this release were the functional programming tools lambda, map, filter and reduce. Van Rossum stated that "Python acquired lambda, reduce(), filter() and map(), courtesy of a Lisp hacker who missed them and submitted working patches".

The last version released while Van Rossum was at CWI was Python 1.2. In 1995, Van Rossum continued his work on Python at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) in Reston, Virginia from where he released several versions.

By version 1.4, Python had acquired several new features. Notable among these are the Modula-3 inspired keyword arguments (which are also similar to Common Lisp's keyword arguments) and built-in support for complex numbers. Also included is a basic form of data hiding by name mangling, though this is easily bypassed.

During Van Rossum's stay at CNRI, he launched the Computer Programming for Everybody (CP4E) initiative, intending to make programming more accessible to more people, with a basic "literacy" in programming languages, similar to the basic English literacy and mathematics skills required by most employers. Python served a central role in this: because of its focus on clean syntax, it was already suitable, and CP4E's goals bore similarities to its predecessor, ABC. The project was funded by DARPA. Шаблон:As of, the CP4E project is inactive, and while Python attempts to be easily learnable and not too arcane in its syntax and semantics, outreach to non-programmers is not an active concern.

BeOpen

In 2000, the Python core development team moved to BeOpen.com to form the BeOpen PythonLabs team, under the direction of early Google alum Domenic Merenda. CNRI requested that a version 1.6 be released, summarizing Python's development up to the point at which the development team left CNRI. Consequently, the release schedules for 1.6 and 2.0 had a significant amount of overlap. Python 2.0 was the only release from BeOpen.com. After Python 2.0 was released by BeOpen.com, Guido van Rossum and the other PythonLabs developers joined Digital Creations.

The Python 1.6 release included a new CNRI license that was substantially longer than the CWI license that had been used for earlier releases. The new license included a clause stating that the license was governed by the laws of the State of Virginia. The Free Software Foundation argued that the choice-of-law clause was incompatible with the GNU General Public License. BeOpen, CNRI and the FSF negotiated a change to Python's free software license that would make it GPL-compatible. Python 1.6.1 is essentially the same as Python 1.6, with a few minor bug fixes, and with the new GPL-compatible license.

Version 2

Python 2.0, released October 2000, introduced list comprehensions, a feature borrowed from the functional programming languages SETL and Haskell. Python's syntax for this construct is very similar to Haskell's, apart from Haskell's preference for punctuation characters and Python's preference for alphabetic keywords. Python 2.0 also introduced a garbage collector capable of collecting reference cycles.

Python 2.1 was close to Python 1.6.1, as well as Python 2.0. Its license was renamed Python Software Foundation License. All code, documentation and specifications added, from the time of Python 2.1's alpha release on, is owned by the Python Software Foundation (PSF), a non-profit organization formed in 2001, modeled after the Apache Software Foundation. The release included a change to the language specification to support nested scopes, like other statically scoped languages. (The feature was turned off by default, and not required, until Python 2.2.)

Python 2.2 was released in December 2001; a major innovation was the unification of Python's types (types written in C) and classes (types written in Python) into one hierarchy. This single unification made Python's object model purely and consistently object oriented. Also added were generators which were inspired by Icon.

Шаблон:Multiple images Python 2.5 was released in September 2006 and introduced the Шаблон:Code statement, which encloses a code block within a context manager (for example, acquiring a lock before the block of code is run and releasing the lock afterwards, or opening a file and then closing it), allowing resource acquisition is initialization (RAII)-like behavior and replacing a common try/finally idiom.

Python 2.6 was released to coincide with Python 3.0, and included some features from that release, as well as a "warnings" mode that highlighted the use of features that were removed in Python 3.0. Similarly, Python 2.7 coincided with and included features from Python 3.1, which was released on June 26, 2009. Parallel 2.x and 3.x releases then ceased, and Python 2.7 was the last release in the 2.x series. In November 2014, it was announced that Python 2.7 would be supported until 2020, but users were encouraged to move to Python 3 as soon as possible. Python 2.7 support ended on January 1, 2020, along with code freeze of 2.7 development branch. A final release, 2.7.18, occurred on April 20, 2020, and included fixes for critical bugs and release blockers. This marked the end-of-life of Python 2.

Version 3

Python 3.0 (also called "Python 3000" or "Py3K") was released on December 3, 2008. It was designed to rectify fundamental design flaws in the languageШаблон:Sndthe changes required could not be implemented while retaining full backwards compatibility with the 2.x series, which necessitated a new major version number. The guiding principle of Python 3 was: "reduce feature duplication by removing old ways of doing things".

Python 3.0 was developed with the same philosophy as in prior versions. However, as Python had accumulated new and redundant ways to program the same task, Python 3.0 had an emphasis on removing duplicative constructs and modules, in keeping with the Zen of Python: "There should be one— and preferably only one —obvious way to do it".

Nonetheless, Python 3.0 remained a multi-paradigm language. Coders could still follow object-oriented, structured, and functional programming paradigms, among others, but within such broad choices, the details were intended to be more obvious in Python 3.0 than they were in Python 2.x.

Compatibility

Python 3.0 broke backward compatibility, and much Python 2 code does not run unmodified on Python 3. Python's dynamic typing combined with the plans to change the semantics of certain methods of dictionaries, for example, made perfect mechanical translation from Python 2.x to Python 3.0 very difficult. A tool called "2to3" does the parts of translation that can be done automatically. At this, 2to3 appeared to be fairly successful, though an early review noted that there were aspects of translation that such a tool would never be able to handle. Prior to the roll-out of Python 3, projects requiring compatibility with both the 2.x and 3.x series were recommended to have one source (for the 2.x series), and produce releases for the Python 3.x platform using 2to3. Edits to the Python 3.x code were discouraged for so long as the code needed to run on Python 2.x. This is no longer recommended; as of 2012 the preferred approach was to create a single code base that can run under both Python 2 and 3 using compatibility modules.

Features

Some of the major changes included for Python 3.0 were:

• Changing Шаблон:Code so that it is a built-in function, not a statement. This made it easier to change a module to use a different print function, as well as making the syntax more regular. In Python 2.6 and 2.7 Шаблон:Code is available as a builtin but is masked by the print statement syntax, which can be disabled by entering Шаблон:Code at the top of the file
• Removal of the Python 2 Шаблон:Code function, and the renaming of the Шаблон:Code function to Шаблон:Code. Python 3's Шаблон:Code function behaves like Python 2's Шаблон:Code function, in that the input is always returned as a string rather than being evaluated as an expression
• Moving Шаблон:Code (but not Шаблон:Code or Шаблон:Code) out of the built-in namespace and into Шаблон:Code (the rationale being code that uses Шаблон:Code is less readable than code that uses a for loop and accumulator variable)
• Adding support for optional function annotations that can be used for informal type declarations or other purposes
• Unifying the Шаблон:Code/Шаблон:Code types, representing text, and introducing a separate immutable Шаблон:Code type; and a mostly corresponding mutable Шаблон:Code type, both of which represent arrays of bytes
• Removing backward-compatibility features, including old-style classes, string exceptions, and implicit relative imports
• A change in integer division functionality: in Python 2, integer division always returns an integer. For example Шаблон:Code is Шаблон:Code; whereas in Python 3, Шаблон:Code is Шаблон:Code. (In both Python 2Шаблон:Snd2.2 onwardsШаблон:Sndand Python 3, a separate operator exists to provide the old behavior: Шаблон:Code is Шаблон:Code)

Subsequent releases in the Python 3.x series have included additional, substantial new features; all ongoing development of the language is done in the 3.x series.

Table of versions

Releases before numbered versions:

• Implementation startedШаблон:SndDecember, 1989
• Internal releases at Centrum Wiskunde & InformaticaШаблон:Snd1990

Version	Latest micro version	Release date	End of full support	End of security fixes
Шаблон:Version	0.9.9	1991-02-20	1993-07-29Шаблон:Efn
Шаблон:Version	1.0.4	1994-01-26	1994-02-15Шаблон:Efn
Шаблон:Version	1.1.1	1994-10-11	1994-11-10Шаблон:Efn
Шаблон:Version		1995-04-13	Unsupported
Шаблон:Version		1995-10-13	Unsupported
Шаблон:Version		1996-10-25	Unsupported
Шаблон:Version	1.5.2	1998-01-03	1999-04-13Шаблон:Efn
Шаблон:Version	1.6.1	2000-09-05	2000-09Шаблон:Efn
Шаблон:Version	2.0.1	2000-10-16	2001-06-22Шаблон:Efn
Шаблон:Version	2.1.3	2001-04-15	2002-04-09Шаблон:Efn
Шаблон:Version	2.2.3	2001-12-21	2003-05-30Шаблон:Efn
Шаблон:Version	2.3.7	2003-06-29	2008-03-11Шаблон:Efn
Шаблон:Version	2.4.6	2004-11-30	2008-12-19Шаблон:Efn
Шаблон:Version	2.5.6	2006-09-19	2011-05-26Шаблон:Efn
Шаблон:Version	2.6.9	2008-10-01	2010-08-24Шаблон:Efn	2013-10-29
Шаблон:Version	2.7.18	2010-07-03	2020-01-01Шаблон:Efn
Шаблон:Version	3.0.1	2008-12-03	2009-06-27
Шаблон:Version	3.1.5	2009-06-27	2011-06-12	2012-04-06
Шаблон:Version	3.2.6	2011-02-20	2013-05-13Шаблон:Efn	2016-02-20
Шаблон:Version	3.3.7	2012-09-29	2014-03-08Шаблон:Efn	2017-09-29
Шаблон:Version	3.4.10	2014-03-16	2017-08-09	2019-03-18Шаблон:Efn
Шаблон:Version	3.5.10	2015-09-13	2017-08-08	2020-09-30
Шаблон:Version	3.6.15	2016-12-23	2018-12-24Шаблон:Efn	2021-12-23
Шаблон:Version	3.7.17	2018-06-27	2020-06-27Шаблон:Efn	2023-06-06
Шаблон:VersionШаблон:Update after	3.8.18	2019-10-14	2021-05-03Шаблон:Efn	2024-10Шаблон:Update after
Шаблон:VersionШаблон:Update after	3.9.18	2020-10-05	2022-05-17Шаблон:Efn	2025-10Шаблон:Update after
Шаблон:VersionШаблон:Update after	3.10.13	2021-10-04	2023-04-05Шаблон:Efn	2026-10Шаблон:Update after
Шаблон:VersionШаблон:Update after	3.11.8Шаблон:Update after	2022-10-24	2024-04-01Шаблон:Update after	2027-10Шаблон:Update after
Шаблон:Version	3.12.2Шаблон:Update after	2023-10-02	2025-05Шаблон:Update after	2028-10Шаблон:Update after
Шаблон:VersionШаблон:Update after	3.13.0a5Шаблон:Update after	2024-10-01Шаблон:Update after	2026-05Шаблон:Update after	2029-10Шаблон:Update after
Legend:		Шаблон:Version
Italics indicates the latest micro version of currently supported versions as of 2024-03-13Шаблон:Update after.

Table notes: Шаблон:Notelist

Support

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See also

• History of software engineering

External links

• Guido Van Rossum blog on Python's History