A History of Python Versions and Features
This course gives you a direct, practical overview of how Python has evolved—what changed in each major version, why it matters, and how to use the features that define modern Python. You’ll see both the historical context and hands-on code, so you understand not just what changed, but why and how to use it today.
In this course, you’ll learn:
- Key new features introduced in every major Python version, starting from early Python 1 up to Python 3.14
- The story behind pivotal changes, like list comprehensions, exception handling, the
withstatement,defaultdict, and the transition from Python 2 to Python 3 - Hands-on use of modern Python tools: f-strings, dataclasses, the walrus operator (:=), match/case structural pattern matching, and new