language.python.json

{
	"name": "Python",
	"category": "programming languages",
	"website": "https://www.python.org/",
	"influcenced_by": [
		"ABC",
		"ALGOL 68",
		"APL",
		"Ada",
		"C",
		"C++",
		"CLU",
		"Dylan",
		"Haskell",
		"Icon",
		"Lisp",
		"Modula-3",
		"Perl",
		"Standard ML"
	],
	"releases": [
		{
			"date": "1991-02-20",
			"version": "0.9",
			"features": [
				"list, dict, str datatypes",
				"classes with inheritance",
				"exception handling",
				"module system"
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "1994-01-26",
			"version": "1.0",
			"src": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python#Version_1",
			"features": [
				"lambda, map, filter and reduce"
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "1994-10-11",
			"version": "1.1"
		},
		{
			"date": "1995-04-13",
			"version": "1.2"
		},
		{
			"date": "1995-10-13",
			"version": "1.3"
		},
		{
			"date": "1996-10-25",
			"version": "1.4",
			"src": "https://github.com/tpn/python-1.4",
			"features": [
				"SyntaxError exceptions now shows line number",
				"Name mangling to support private variables",
				"lstrip, rstrip functions for strings",
				"operator module",
				"Power operator **",
				"Support for complex numbers",
				"list builtin function"
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "1998-01-03",
			"version": "1.5",
			"features": [
				"Safe printing of recursive lists and dictionaries",
				"raise can re-raise previous exception",
				"assert statement",
				"re module",
				"raw string literals",
				"Exceptions are now classes",
				"Dictionaries support .get method"
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "2000-09-05",
			"version": "1.6",
			"features": [
				"String methods like .lower()",
				"Calling function with tuple arguments using *args and **kwargs",
				"urllib2 module"
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "2000-10-16",
			"version": "2.0",
			"features": [
				"Unicode strings",
				"List comprehansions",
				"Augmented assigments",
				"String methods like capitalize, find or replace",
				"Calling function with tuple arguments using *args and **kwargs",
				"Print statement redirection using >>",
				"zip builtin"
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "2001-04-15",
			"version": "2.1",
			"features": [
				"Indivdual overloading of comparison operators",
				"Warning framework",
				"Function attributes"
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "2001-12-21",
			"version": "2.2",
			"features": [
				"Attribute descriptors",
				"Iterators",
				"New // division operator"
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "2003-06-29",
			"version": "2.3",
			"features": [
				"set datatype in sets module",
				"generators",
				"source code encodings",
				"enumerate builtin",
				"logging package",
				"boolean type with True and False constants",
				"csv module",
				"step argument for slices"
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "2004-11-30",
			"version": "2.4",
			"features": [
				"set builtin",
				"generator expressions",
				"string.Template class",
				"decorators for functions and methods",
				"reversed builtin",
				"subprocess module",
				"decimal data type",
				""
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "2006-09-19",
			"version": "2.5",
			"features": [
				"partial function application",
				"multiline and relative imports",
				"executing modules as scripts with -m",
				"generators with yield expressions",
				"conditional expressions"
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "2008-10-01",
			"version": "2.6",
			"features": [
				"with statement",
				"context managers",
				"contextlib module",
				"multiprocessing package",
				"String formatting with format method"
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "2010-07-03",
			"version": "2.7",
			"features": [
				"ordered dictionary type",
				"set literals",
				"set and dictionary comprehansions",
				"dictionary views"
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "2008-12-03",
			"version": "3.0",
			"features": [
				"print is a function",
				"views and iterators instead of lists",
				"int type as only integral built-in type",
				"Unicode strings by default",
				"Function argument and return value annotations",
				"nonlocal statement",
				"keyword-only arguments",
				"dictionary comprehansions",
				"set literals",
				"octal literals",
				"binary literals",
				"new metaclass syntax"
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "2009-06-27",
			"version": "3.1",
			"features": [
				"ordered dictionary",
				"with statements with multiple context managers"
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "2011-02-20",
			"version": "3.2",
			"features": [
				"futures",
				"Stable ABI definition"
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "2012-09-29",
			"version": "3.3",
			"features": [
				"delagate to subgenerator with yield from",
				"Virtual environments",
				"Suppressing exception context with raise X from Y"
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "2014-03-16",
			"version": "3.4",
			"features": [
				"enum module",
				"asyncio module",
				"pathlib module"
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "2015-09-13",
			"version": "3.5",
			"features": [
				"typing module",
				"Coroutines with async and await syntax",
				"Operator @ for matrix multiplication"
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "2016-12-23",
			"version": "3.6",
			"features": [
				"Preserving Keyword Argument Order",
				"Literal string interprolation (fstrings)",
				"Underscores in numeric literals",
				"Simpler class customization with __init_subclass__ hook"
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "2018-06-27",
			"version": "3.7",
			"features": [
				"Built-in breakpoint()",
				"Data Classes",
				"Core support for typing module and generic types",
				"Time functions with nanosecond resolution"
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "2019-10-14",
			"version": "3.8",
			"features": [
				"Assigment expressions",
				"Positional-only arguments",
				"f-strings support = specifier"
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "2020-10-05",
			"version": "3.9",
			"features": [
				"Union operators in dict",
				"String methods to remove prefixes and suffixes",
				"Flexible function and variable annotations"
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "2021-10-04",
			"version": "3.10",
			"features": [
				"Allow writing union types as X | Y",
				"Structural pattern matching"
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "2022-10-24",
			"version": "3.11",
			"features": [
				"exception groups",
				"except*",
				"tomllib - support for parsing TOML in standard library",
				"exception enrichement with notes",
				"variadic generics",
				"self type annoatation",
				"arbitrary literal string type"
			]
		},
		{
			"date": "2023-10-02",
			"version": "3.12",
			"src": "https://docs.python.org/3.12/whatsnew/3.12.html",
			"features": [
				"type parameter syntax",
				"type statement",
				"cryptographic functions translated from HACL* project",
				"quote reuse inside f-strings",
				"multiline expressions in f-strings",
				"per-interpreter GIL"
			]
		}
	]
}