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Updated FAQ to reflect official Python 3 support

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What are Django's prerequisites?
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Django requires Python, specifically Python 2.6.5 - 2.7.x. No other Python
libraries are required for basic Django usage. Django 1.5 also has
experimental support for Python 3.2.3 and above.
Django requires Python, specifically Python 2.6.5 - 2.7.x, or 3.2.3 and above.
No other Python libraries are required for basic Django usage.
For a development environment -- if you just want to experiment with Django --
you don't need to have a separate Web server installed; Django comes with its
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Not in the core framework. Currently, Django itself officially supports
Python 2.6 (2.6.5 or higher) and 2.7. However, newer versions of
Python 2.6 (2.6.5 or higher), 2.7, 3.2.3 or higher. However, newer versions of
Python are often faster, have more features, and are better supported. If you
use a newer version of Python you will also have access to some APIs that
aren't available under older versions of Python.
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Third-party applications for use with Django are, of course, free to set their
own version requirements.
All else being equal, we recommend that you use the latest 2.x release
(currently Python 2.7). This will let you take advantage of the numerous
improvements and optimizations to the Python language since version 2.6.
Generally speaking, we don't recommend running Django on Python 3 yet; see
below for more.
All else being equal, we recommend that you use the latest 2.7 or 3.x release.
This will let you take advantage of the numerous improvements and optimizations
to the Python language since version 2.6.
What Python version can I use with Django?
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