Release Date: Dec. 23, 2016

Python 3.6.0 was the initial feature release of Python 3.6.

Note

There are now newer security-fix releases of Python 3.6 that supersede 3.6.0 and Python 3.8 is now the latest feature release of Python 3. Get the latest releases of 3.6.x and 3.8.x here. Python 3.6.8 is planned to be the last bugfix release for 3.6.x. Following the release of 3.6.8, we plan to provide security fixes for Python 3.6 as needed through 2021, five years following its initial release.

Among the new major new features in Python 3.6 were: