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Install Python 3 on MacOS. Historically MacOS came preinstalled with Python 2, however starting with Mac 10.15 (released in October 2019) this is no longer the case.And since Python 2 will no longer be officially supported as of January 1, 2020, you should really use Python 3 instead. There are multiple ways to install Python 3 on a MacOS computer. Note that the python.org releases only support versions of Windows that are supported by Microsoft (at the time of the release), so no recent release from python.org can be used on WIndows XP. See the Python for Mac OS X page. MacOS from 10.2 (Jaguar) to 10.15 (Catalina) includes a system version of Python 2, but it is best not to consider.

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  1. Python 2.7.8July 2, 2014 DownloadRelease Notes
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  16. Python 3.3.0Sept. 29, 2012 DownloadRelease Notes
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  23. Python 2.7.2June 11, 2011 DownloadRelease Notes
  24. Python 3.1.4June 11, 2011 DownloadRelease Notes
  25. Python 2.6.7June 3, 2011 DownloadRelease Notes
  26. Python 2.5.6May 26, 2011 DownloadRelease Notes
  27. Python 3.2.0Feb. 20, 2011 DownloadRelease Notes
  28. Python 2.7.1Nov. 27, 2010 DownloadRelease Notes
  29. Python 3.1.3Nov. 27, 2010 DownloadRelease Notes
  30. Python 2.6.6Aug. 24, 2010 DownloadRelease Notes
  31. Python 2.7.0July 3, 2010 DownloadRelease Notes
  32. Python 3.1.2March 20, 2010 DownloadRelease Notes
  33. Python 2.6.5March 18, 2010 DownloadRelease Notes
  34. Python 2.5.5Jan. 31, 2010 DownloadRelease Notes
  35. Python 2.6.4Oct. 26, 2009 DownloadRelease Notes
  36. Python 2.6.3Oct. 2, 2009 DownloadRelease Notes
  37. Python 3.1.1Aug. 17, 2009 DownloadRelease Notes
  38. Python 3.1.0June 26, 2009 DownloadRelease Notes
  39. Python 2.6.2April 14, 2009 DownloadRelease Notes
  40. Python 3.0.1Feb. 13, 2009 DownloadRelease Notes
  41. Python 2.5.4Dec. 23, 2008 DownloadRelease Notes
  42. Python 2.4.6Dec. 19, 2008 DownloadRelease Notes
  43. Python 2.5.3Dec. 19, 2008 DownloadRelease Notes
  44. Python 2.6.1Dec. 4, 2008 DownloadRelease Notes
  45. Python 3.0.0Dec. 3, 2008 DownloadRelease Notes
  46. Python 2.6.0Oct. 2, 2008 DownloadRelease Notes
  47. Python 2.3.7March 11, 2008 DownloadRelease Notes
  48. Python 2.4.5March 11, 2008 DownloadRelease Notes
  49. Python 2.5.2Feb. 21, 2008 DownloadRelease Notes
  50. Python 2.5.1April 19, 2007 DownloadRelease Notes
  51. Python 2.3.6Nov. 1, 2006 DownloadRelease Notes
  52. Python 2.4.4Oct. 18, 2006 DownloadRelease Notes
  53. Python 2.5.0Sept. 19, 2006 DownloadRelease Notes
  54. Python 2.4.3April 15, 2006 DownloadRelease Notes
  55. Python 2.4.2Sept. 27, 2005 DownloadRelease Notes
  56. Python 2.4.1March 30, 2005 DownloadRelease Notes
  57. Python 2.3.5Feb. 8, 2005 DownloadRelease Notes
  58. Python 2.4.0Nov. 30, 2004 DownloadRelease Notes
  59. Python 2.3.4May 27, 2004 DownloadRelease Notes
  60. Python 2.3.3Dec. 19, 2003 DownloadRelease Notes
  61. Python 2.3.2Oct. 3, 2003 DownloadRelease Notes
  62. Python 2.3.1Sept. 23, 2003 DownloadRelease Notes
  63. Python 2.3.0July 29, 2003 DownloadRelease Notes
  64. Python 2.2.3May 30, 2003 DownloadRelease Notes
  65. Python 2.2.2Oct. 14, 2002 DownloadRelease Notes
  66. Python 2.2.1April 10, 2002 DownloadRelease Notes
  67. Python 2.1.3April 9, 2002 DownloadRelease Notes
  68. Python 2.2.0Dec. 21, 2001 DownloadRelease Notes
  69. Python 2.0.1June 22, 2001 DownloadRelease Notes

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For most Unix systems, you must download and compile the source code. The same source code archive can also be used to build the Windows and Mac versions, and is the starting point for ports to all other platforms.

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History

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, although it includes many contributions from others.

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