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It is one of the possibilities for the P in LAMP (a set of technologies used in many web back-ends, including Linux, Apache, and MySQL, notable for being free, open-source software in contrast to proprietary technologies such as those from Microsoft) along with [[Perl]] and [[PHP]]. | It is one of the possibilities for the P in LAMP (a set of technologies used in many web back-ends, including Linux, Apache, and MySQL, notable for being free, open-source software in contrast to proprietary technologies such as those from Microsoft) along with [[Perl]] and [[PHP]]. | ||
| − | Media reports of [http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/08/06/f-exotic-animals-laws-canada.html python-linked deaths] have nothing to do with the safety of this language, honest! | + | Media reports of [http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/08/06/f-exotic-animals-laws-canada.html python-linked deaths] have nothing to do with the safety of this language, honest! Actually, the name of the language was inspired by [[Wikipedia:Monty Python|Monty Python]], not any actual reptile. |
A notable feature of Python is its use of whitespace as a syntactically-significant part of its structure; the level of indenting of code blocks actually determines its place structurally, in contrast to most other languages which use explicit items such as curly braces or keywords such as [[Pascal]]'s '''begin''' and '''end''' (though in those languages it is still customary to indent code blocks for readability). | A notable feature of Python is its use of whitespace as a syntactically-significant part of its structure; the level of indenting of code blocks actually determines its place structurally, in contrast to most other languages which use explicit items such as curly braces or keywords such as [[Pascal]]'s '''begin''' and '''end''' (though in those languages it is still customary to indent code blocks for readability). | ||
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| + | The easy learnability of the language is enhanced by the fact that it has a command-line interpreter which lets you type commands from a prompt in immediate mode, much like the old-time [[BASIC]] interpreters on which so many people first learned to program back in the days of the Apple II and Commodore 64. | ||
It has a number of file endings associated with it, including .py, .pyc, .pyo, and .pyd. When people have desired a MIME type for Python code, they run into the fact that no standard has been established, and even the nonstandard types don't seem to have reached any degree of consistency; people have tried ''text/python'', ''text/python3'', ''application/python'', ''text/x-python'', and others. | It has a number of file endings associated with it, including .py, .pyc, .pyo, and .pyd. When people have desired a MIME type for Python code, they run into the fact that no standard has been established, and even the nonstandard types don't seem to have reached any degree of consistency; people have tried ''text/python'', ''text/python3'', ''application/python'', ''text/x-python'', and others. | ||
Revision as of 22:34, 18 March 2014
Python is a programming language.
It is one of the possibilities for the P in LAMP (a set of technologies used in many web back-ends, including Linux, Apache, and MySQL, notable for being free, open-source software in contrast to proprietary technologies such as those from Microsoft) along with Perl and PHP.
Media reports of python-linked deaths have nothing to do with the safety of this language, honest! Actually, the name of the language was inspired by Monty Python, not any actual reptile.
A notable feature of Python is its use of whitespace as a syntactically-significant part of its structure; the level of indenting of code blocks actually determines its place structurally, in contrast to most other languages which use explicit items such as curly braces or keywords such as Pascal's begin and end (though in those languages it is still customary to indent code blocks for readability).
The easy learnability of the language is enhanced by the fact that it has a command-line interpreter which lets you type commands from a prompt in immediate mode, much like the old-time BASIC interpreters on which so many people first learned to program back in the days of the Apple II and Commodore 64.
It has a number of file endings associated with it, including .py, .pyc, .pyo, and .pyd. When people have desired a MIME type for Python code, they run into the fact that no standard has been established, and even the nonstandard types don't seem to have reached any degree of consistency; people have tried text/python, text/python3, application/python, text/x-python, and others.
- .py
- A text file that contains python source code. It is often utf-8 encoded, but it does not have to be.
- .pyc
- Compiled bytecode of a python source file
- .pyo
- Optimized compiled bytecode
- .pyd
- A python version of a Windows .dll file
Python is often affiliated with reStructuredText documents. Python comments are often formatted with reStructuredText markup.
References
- Python (Wikipedia)
- Official website
- Python trademark filer ignorant of Python?
- Python script to create 'Tweet this' link that doesn't require JavaScript
- PEP 8: Style guide for Python code
- Python interface to archive.org
- Python script to generate GIFs from Star Wars based on input dialogue line
- Brython: Python implemented in JavaScript
- Why Python?
