# Python version 3 update?

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**Created:** [June 8, 2015, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/python-version-3-update/10106 "2015-06-08T18:37:50Z")\
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> [@Python 3.x soon?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/python-3-x-soon/38635/14):
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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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