# Python 3.x soon?

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**Created:** [September 13, 2020, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/python-3-x-soon/38635 "2020-09-13T17:24:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/python-3-x-soon/38635/14 "2023-08-15T18:47:04Z")

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Nothing planned right now.

Honestly, this doesn't seem likely in the next couple years, if ever. The backwards incompatibility issues are insurmountable imo. The way I see it, the best case is that we introduce new/parallel scripting engines, with Jython3/Python3 being one possibility. But this idea comes with its own bag of compatibility issues.

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