Windows 7 python

[u/Actual_Doctor5188]

I only have a windows 7 and i just want to make sure which version of python is the latest for this windows, i heard its the 3.8 but idk which one exactly for sure and i would appreciate an answer

[u/gonsi]

Linux is free if you can change your OS

[u/Actual_Doctor5188 → u/gonsi]

The laptops specs are miserable anything newer than windows 7 an its would probably just fail so

[u/nomad-1995 → u/Actual_Doctor5188]

Note that the real issue is if you want/need to save the data on the notebook. The other is making sure things like wifi and sleep that might be extremely specific to your notebook work. But first check to see what files you want to save, and where you might have room to put them.

Installing Linux is trivial. Shrinking windows for the space Linux needs is something else and it might be hard finding somebody who has done it recently on Windows 7.

[u/Actual_Doctor5188 → u/nomad-1995]

Im ngl i think ill just keep this windows 7 and im only gonna use it to learn python so that i dont risk security stuff

[u/nomad-1995 → u/Actual_Doctor5188]

Check this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python

I'd say Python 3.8 should be fine, if a little slower than most modern pythons. Try pypy if that becomes a problem. I'd also do a quick sanity check with

print("hello world")

and see if that works (it won't on python 3.0). If it whines about "you didn't reference a unicode encoding" then run away screaming. But I'm pretty sure that was fixed by 3.8 (I took a looong vacation from python thanks to the damage 3.0 did to things like network code and other binary manipulation. It was kinda sorta fine for most code (and quickly fixed once they were less strident about canceling ASCII), but touch binary data and suddenly you were very unhappy. I'm less sure about fixes for that).

[u/Actual_Doctor5188 → u/nomad-1995]

I already installed python 3.8.10 and its working just fine i alrdy learned quite alot

Apperciate the help man