Enhancement: Downloads page: Add latest patch release column

[srittau]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

At https://www.python.org/downloads/ there's a very useful "Active Python Releases" table. But I need to look up the latest release of a minor Python version fairly frequently. For this I need to go down to the "Looking for a specific release?" section and scan through it to find a particular release. This is fairly error prone, since the release are sorted by release date, and multiple patch releases of minor Python version are listed.

Describe the solution you'd like

Another column "Current version" in the "Active Python Releases" would be quite handy.

Basic Example

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Describe alternatives you've considered

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Drawbacks and Impact

One disadvantage would be that the table becomes wider. On the other hand, currently, the "Maintenance status" column for the 3.8 release contains the text "end of life, last release was 3.8.20", which is quite wide by itself, and could be moved to the new column.

Additional context

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[hugovk]

This is a good idea. This is partially covered in #2066, but we can also keep this focused issue.

At the moment the release PEPs have the release schedule in RST format. One idea is to move the schedule data into a JSON file in the PEPs repo. That can then be used to fill out the PEPs, and can also be re-used here, at https://devguide.python.org/versions/ and https://github.com/fedora-python/python-release-schedule-ical (the last one is currently scraping and extracting it from PEPs).

In the meantime, there are some third-party things:

• https://endoflife.date/python
• uvx norwegianblue python
• uvx pepotron 3.14