On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 20:29:52 -0500
Jonathan Goble
I can't speak for distributors or maintainers [1], but I can speak for myself as a user. I run Debian testing (currently bullseye as that is preparing for release) as my daily OS on my personal laptop, used for personal matters and school assignments (I'm a university computer science student in my senior year).
I don't use the system Python for anything of my own, whether it's a school assignment or a personal project, precisely because I don't want to risk screwing something up. Rather, I maintain a clone/fork of the official CPython GitHub repo, and periodically build from source and `make altinstall` into `~/.local/`.
For the record, instead of building Python by hand, you could use a distribution such as Anaconda or the community-maintained conda-forge. Regards Antoine.