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Python

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Official docs outline

20 sections
  1. Control flow

    if, for, while, range, break/continue, loop else clauses, and structural pattern matching with match statements.

  2. Built-in data structures

    Lists, tuples, sets, dicts, comprehensions, unpacking, sequence comparison and looping techniques.

  3. Defining functions

    def, default/keyword/positional-only arguments, *args and **kwargs, lambdas, docstrings and annotations.

  4. Modules and packages

    import statements, module search path, __name__ == '__main__', packages, __init__.py and relative imports.

  5. Input, output and files

    f-strings, str.format, reading and writing files, with statements, and JSON serialization.

  6. Errors and exceptions

    try/except/else/finally, raising, exception chaining, custom exceptions, exception groups and cleanup actions.

  7. Classes and objects

    Class definitions, instances, methods, class vs instance variables, inheritance, multiple inheritance, name mangling.

  8. Scopes and namespaces

    LEGB name resolution, global and nonlocal, closures, and how namespaces bind names to objects.

  9. Iterators and generators

    The iterator protocol, __iter__/__next__, generator functions, yield, and generator expressions.

  10. Virtual environments and packages

    venv, pip, dependency isolation and installing third-party packages.

  11. Standard library tour

    os, sys, re, math, datetime, logging, threading, collections-style helpers and other batteries-included modules.

  12. Data model

    Special (dunder) methods, object identity and types, operator overloading, descriptors, slots, metaclasses, context-manager protocol.

  13. Execution model

    Code blocks, name binding and resolution, scoping rules, and exception handling at the interpreter level.

  14. The import system

    Finders and loaders, sys.path, sys.modules caching, namespace packages and import hooks.

  15. Decorators and context managers

    Function and class decorators, functools.wraps, with statements, __enter__/__exit__ and contextlib.

  16. Descriptors and properties

    The descriptor protocol behind property, classmethod, staticmethod, bound methods and attribute lookup.

  17. Type hints and typing

    Annotations, generics, Protocol, TypedDict, Optional/Union, TypeVar, Callable, and static type checking.

  18. Dataclasses

    The @dataclass decorator, generated __init__/__repr__/__eq__, frozen and slotted dataclasses, default factories.

  19. Threads, processes and the GIL

    threading, multiprocessing, concurrent.futures, the global interpreter lock, and choosing between concurrency models.

  20. Asynchronous programming with asyncio

    Event loop, coroutines, async/await, tasks, gather and TaskGroup, async iterators and synchronization primitives.

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Versions and support

6 release lines
3.15.2 latest release, Oct 25, 2026
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3.15 Oct 9, 2026 3.15.2 Until Oct 31, 2031
3.14 Oct 7, 2025 3.14.10 Until Oct 31, 2030
3.13 Oct 7, 2024 3.13.18 Until Oct 31, 2029
3.12 Oct 2, 2023 3.12.16 Until Oct 31, 2028
3.11 Oct 24, 2022 3.11.18 Until Oct 31, 2027
3.10 Oct 4, 2021 3.10.22 Ended Oct 1, 2026

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