deadsnakes is useful, but also a bit of a misnomer. One can use it to get pretty much anything python version, even ones that are too new to be available in you

deadsnakes is useful, but also a bit of a misnomer. One can use it to get pretty much anything python version, even ones that are too new to be available in your default apt repos. That is, it's not just for 'dead'/EOL versions.