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diff --git a/Doc/faq/general.rst b/Doc/faq/general.rst index 9d3e199..90fd69e 100644 --- a/Doc/faq/general.rst +++ b/Doc/faq/general.rst @@ -306,17 +306,19 @@ usually around 18 months between major releases. The developers issue "bugfix" releases of older versions, so the stability of existing releases gradually improves. Bugfix releases, indicated by a third -component of the version number (e.g. 2.5.3, 2.6.2), are managed for stability; +component of the version number (e.g. 3.5.3, 3.6.2), are managed for stability; only fixes for known problems are included in a bugfix release, and it's guaranteed that interfaces will remain the same throughout a series of bugfix releases. The latest stable releases can always be found on the `Python download page -<https://www.python.org/downloads/>`_. There are two recommended production-ready -versions at this point in time, because at the moment there are two branches of -stable releases: 2.x and 3.x. Python 3.x may be less useful than 2.x, since -currently there is more third party software available for Python 2 than for -Python 3. Python 2 code will generally not run unchanged in Python 3. +<https://www.python.org/downloads/>`_. There are two production-ready version +of Python: 2.x and 3.x, but the recommended one at this times is Python 3.x. +Although Python 2.x is still widely used, `it will not be +maintained after January 1, 2020 <https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/>`_. +Python 2.x was known for having more third-party libraries available, however, +by the time of this writing, most of the widely used libraries support Python 3.x, +and some are even dropping the Python 2.x support. How many people are using Python? |