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And what about the name? Python? Yes, you guessed it right. It was taken from the BBC TV show Monty Pythons Flying Circus.
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Technical background
Python 2.0 was released in October 2000 and has been widely adopted since. The next generation of Python was version 3.0 released in 2008. Because of a complete redesign, the Python 3.0 broke backward compatibly, and a lot of Python 2.0 code cannot run in a Python 3.0 environment unmodified.
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