The Apache Spark community has improved support for Python to such a great degree over the past few years that Python is now a “first-class” language, and no longer a “clunky” add-on as it once was, ...

The latest releases of Python are versions 3.8.13, 3.9.13 and 3.10.5. Python 3.11 is currently in beta, with beta 3 released at the beginning of June 2022, and is due to be released in October 2022.