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What Are The Major Differences Between Python 2 and Python 3?

Python 2.0 was released in Oct 2000. Introduced ‘list comprehensions’ features. Python 2.0 supports garbage-collected features.

Python 3.0, also called ‘Python 3000 or Py3k,’ was released on Dec 3, 2008. The guiding principle of Python 3 was “reduce feature duplicates by removing old ways of doing things.”

There were some major changes in Python 3.0:

  • In Python 3.0, print changed into a built-in function; before that, print was a statement.
  • In Python 3.0, the raw_input function is renamed into the input function.
  • In Python 3.0, the reduce function moved into functools; before that reduce function was built-in namespace.

The current version of Python is 3.12.4. Always check the official Python.org website for updated Python versions.