Experienced programmers in any other language can pick up Python very quickly, and beginners find the clean syntax and indentation structure easy to learn. Whet your appetite with our Python 3 overview.

For a concise step by step summary of building Python on Windows, you can read Victor Stinner’s guide. All supported versions of Python can be built using Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 or later. You …

Python Developer's Guide Python's Developer Guide can be found at https://devguide.python.org/. The pieces of documentation hosted here are: PEPs (Python Enhancement Proposals) Buildbots …

This guide is a comprehensive resource for contributing to Python – for both new and experienced contributors. It is maintained by the same community that maintains Python.

Python was created in the early 1990s by Guido van Rossum at Stichting Mathematisch Centrum in the Netherlands as a successor of a language called ABC. Guido remains Python’s principal author, …

2 days ago · Development Tools ¶ The modules described in this chapter help you write software. For example, the pydoc module takes a module and generates documentation based on the module’s …

Build Python using profile-guided optimization (PGO). You can use the configure --enable-optimizations option to make this the default target of the make command (make all or just make).

Jun 11, 2025 · Thanks to all of the many volunteers who help make Python Development and these releases possible! Please consider supporting our efforts by volunteering yourself or through …

1 day ago · The Python Development Mode introduces additional runtime checks that are too expensive to be enabled by default. It should not be more verbose than the default if the code is correct; new …

The main branch is currently the future Python 3.15, and is the only branch that accepts new features. The latest release for each Python version can be found on the download page.