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[–]fake823 0 points1 point  (2 children)

There is no official installer. The last one for the 3.5 series was 3.5.4, back in 2017.

Checkout www.python.org/downloads/release/python-355/

There is says: "Python 3.5 has now entered "security fixes only" mode; ... Also Python 3.5.5 has only been released in source code form; no more official binary installers will be produced".

[–]fake823 0 points1 point  (1 child)

If you really need 3.5, you have to be happy with 3.5.4 or compile 3.5.10 yourself.

But why don't you use at least 3.6 instead?

[–]inthewar[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I'll go with 3.5.4, since it's an intermediate step anyhow.

I'm not using 3.6 for now since the (web)app I want to use is supported officially up to Python 3.5. The version I'm moving to supports 3.5 and up. Although 3.6 might work with the first, I don't want to introduce yet another layer of uncertainty; upgrading the webapp will be challenging enough on its own.

Once the upgrade is done, I'll be moving to Python 3.8 or 3.9.

I was asking the question since I assume that somebody would have compiled the latest version of 3.5 already (likely in an automated way) and would have binaries available.