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[[Guido van Rossum]] began working on Python in the late 1980s as a successor to the [[ABC (programming language)|ABC]] programming language and first released it in 1991 as Python 0.9.0.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rossum|first=Guido Van|date=2009-01-20|title=The History of Python: A Brief Timeline of Python|url=https://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/01/brief-timeline-of-python.html|access-date=2021-03-05|website=The History of Python|archive-date=5 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200605032200/https://python-history.blogspot.com/2009/01/brief-timeline-of-python.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Python 2.0 was released in 2000. Python 3.0, released in 2008, was a major revision not completely [[backward-compatible]] with earlier versions. Python 2.7.18, released in 2020, was the last release of Python 2.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pythoninsider.blogspot.com/2020/04/python-2718-last-release-of-python-2.html|title= Python 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2|last=Peterson|first=Benjamin|date=20 April 2020|website=Python Insider|access-date=27 April 2020|archive-date=26 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200426204118/https://pythoninsider.blogspot.com/2020/04/python-2718-last-release-of-python-2.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
Python consistently ranks as one of the most popular programming languages, and has gained widespread use in the [[machine learning]] community.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022 |url=https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/ |access-date=2022-08-12 |website=Stack Overflow |language=en |archive-date=27 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220627175307/https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2020 Infographic|url=https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2020/|access-date=2021-03-05|website=JetBrains: Developer Tools for Professionals and Teams|language=en|archive-date=1 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301062411/https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2020/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="tiobecurrent">{{cite web |title=TIOBE Index |publisher=TIOBE |url=https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ |access-date=3 January 2023 |quote=The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages |archive-date=25 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180225101948/https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ |url-status=live}} Updated as required.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language index|url=https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html|access-date=2021-03-26|website=pypl.github.io|language=en|archive-date=14 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314232030/https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
==History==
{{Main|History of Python}}
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