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gh-116010: Remove link to deprecated PEP 6 in FAQ guide (#116246)
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Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <[email protected]>
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Tabrizian and hugovk authored Mar 3, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -133,8 +133,6 @@ Python versions are numbered "A.B.C" or "A.B":
changes.
* *C* is the micro version number -- it is incremented for each bugfix release.

See :pep:`6` for more information about bugfix releases.

Not all releases are bugfix releases. In the run-up to a new feature release, a
series of development releases are made, denoted as alpha, beta, or release
candidate. Alphas are early releases in which interfaces aren't yet finalized;
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practice, after a final minor release is made, the version is incremented to the
next minor version, which becomes the "a0" version, e.g. "2.4a0".

See also the documentation for :data:`sys.version`, :data:`sys.hexversion`, and
See the `Developer's Guide
<https://devguide.python.org/developer-workflow/development-cycle/>`__
for more information about the development cycle, and
:pep:`387` to learn more about Python's backward compatibility policy. See also
the documentation for :data:`sys.version`, :data:`sys.hexversion`, and
:data:`sys.version_info`.


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