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[silent girder]

Hey y'all

I'm a newbie at Python, what's the latest release? Is it 3.2.1? Also, has anyone used AI like Copilot, Gemini, ChatGPT while coding? Any tips on use cases for data analysis and viz like pandas and numpy 🤨 📊

[woven crest]

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[graceful wasp]

https://www.python.org/downloads/
The most recent version is 3.14, but that's a pre-release.
The most recent stable version is 3.13.2

Python 3.2.1 was released on July 10th, 2011

So that's a little outdated

[gritty flower]

God, time flies.

[gritty flower]

Tips on use-cases? What do you mean? What is your use case?

[pulsar glade]

latest
note that it's usually a good idea to stay behind a few releases, since the libraries may not have been updated yet (as is the case w/ pandas + py3.13 for example)
AI coding
yes, the results disappoint more often than I'd like it to
use cases for data analysis and viz
use it to... analyze and visualize data? what are you asking exactly

[rustic monolith]

I know people who use chatgpt to write small code snippets usually in matlab which is useful when you want it to just create a short script for you. I use Copilot but only as a quality-of-life improvement, because it helps me repeat similar, but not the same, blocks of code or do simple for loops and such without having to waste brain power on it. In my experience it cannot do anything more than that, otherwise you just spend all your time debugging the AI. Use cases for data analysis is literally what half of every single tech company in the world does. Grab any user data and try to find some information about people's behaviour from it.

[silent girder]

Ah alright I'm looking for a stable release so 3.13.2 should be good, tysm

[pulsar glade]

(note that pandas isn't available for that version if you plan to use it)

[silent girder]

Can you load it with 3.9?

[pulsar glade]

pandas is available for 3.9, yes
the latest python that has pandas is 3.12

[gritty flower]

Sorry going offtopic but I'm curious: why?

[pulsar glade]

it... hasn't been updated yet?

[gritty flower]

Oh ok that's it :p ty

[rustic monolith]

if you're doing data analysis you could use Anaconda/Conda to handle versioning for you and just create an environment with pandas included which automatically gets you teh latest available version

[gritty flower]

There are a lot of different opinions on this

I would not go conda, it's slow, bloated, and causes many errors that are hard to fix when you start

Learn a venv, learn a few pip commands

and you can froget about conda

[rustic monolith]

it's fine when you care about scientific programming

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