How to update python from 3.5.2 to 3.5.3 on Linux

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 2:43 AM, Thomas Nyberg <tomuxiong at gmx.com> wrote:
> Interesting...learn something new every day! I knew that they would
> backport security updates, but I never realized they would actually use
> a newer (micro) version of the interpreter while retaining the original
> number on the package. (Of course using a newer micro version really
> just means officially backporting all those patches...which might mean
> basically the same thing as just using the newer micro release and
> adding their own changes.)
>
> Anyway thanks for pointing this out! This is exactly the kind of
> misconception that could fester for a long time without my every
> realizing it.

They won't update the entire package to 3.4.3 without changing the
version number, but what usually happens is that there are just a
handful of critical security patches on top of 3.4.2. So they keep
calling it 3.4.2, but it's as safe as 3.4.3.

ChrisA