I'm not sure what it means to be "official" besides being the python in /usr/bin. You could install python a number of different ways and just change those links, but ...

diff -up Python-2.5.1/Lib/sqlite3/dbapi2.py.encoding Python-2.5.1/Lib/sqlite3/dbapi2.py --- Python-2.5.1/Lib/sqlite3/dbapi2.py.encoding 2007-09-14 10:41:50.000000000 ...

I recently switched to using python 2.5 from 2.4, one of the new language level features in 2.5 is conditional expressions. Which I thought was odd because I was already writing conditional expression ...

The last Python 2.x version is Python 2.7, which was released on July 3, 2010. Python 2.7 ended on January 1, 2020. Python 3 is not backward compatible with Python 2, so the code written for Python 2 ...

As of January 1st, 2020, Python 2.7 has officially reached the end of life and will no longer receive security updates, bug fixes, or other improvements going forward. Released in 2000, Python 2.7 has ...

Nearly five months after the Python Software Foundation finally ended support for the Python 2 programming language, many developers are continuing to use it, heightening security risks for their ...