Check Python version in Windows CMD with step-by-step methods. Ensure compatibility for scripts and libraries in seconds.

This post shows you how to check Python version in three ways: by checking the software name, through the terminal, or in the code.

In a Q&A, Python programming language creator Guido van Rossum said it was "almost taboo to talk about a Python 4 in a serious sense" following the troubled migration from Python 2.0 to Python 3.0.

That problem is compounded by developers who created dependencies or software libraries with Python 2, which in turn prevent developers downstream from upgrading to Python version 3.