How are Python tags with no patch version managed?

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Hi,

The official Python images (Docker Hub) have some tags that specify a Python major and minor version but no patch version. For example:

  • python:3.6

  • python:3.6-alpine3.13

How are these images updated? For example when a new patch version of Python 3.6 is released, does the python:3.6 image get updated with the new version of Python? Is there some way to see a changelog?

Thanks

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In Python, you should consider naming it __version__ , not version .

This is almost a quasi-standard. Many modules in the standard library use version, and this is also used in lots of 3rd-party modules, so it’s quasi-standard.

Usually, version is a string, but sometimes it’s also a float or tuple.

Usually, __version__ is a string, but sometimes it’s also a float or tuple.