For various reasons you might want to know which Python versions are “current”: * provide a list of pyXY targets to tox * remove a no longer supported version of Python from the .whl files you generate to upload to PyPI * determine which ‘Programming Language :: Python ::’ classifiers to include in your package information * check if you have the latest micro version of a Python installed on all of your servers extracting this kind of information from various PEPs (that often have slightly different formats), python.org and other web pages, is cumbersome. This package both provides a commandline utility python_release_info that you can use in scripts, makefiles, etc. and a programmatic interface to get to release information. The release information is retrieved from the internet and can be updated e.g. only a daily basis, without having update the package itself. A Python or shell script, can check if one or more new versions are available for download and take action accordingly. Pre-release information can be queried as well. -- The release information is automatically extracted (other information, like EOL info is not), currently for cpython only. If you are interested in incorporating release information of specific other releases, let me know (if possible including mailing list/website etc, at where I could obtain the most accurate and timely information updates). Feedback on whether pre-release information should be kept (currently superseded when the actual .0 release is available) for a specific project is welcome as well.