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Python (programming language)
Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming

language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability Python
with the use of significant indentation.[33]
Python is dynamically typed and garbage-collected. It supports

multiple programming paradigms, including structured
(particularly procedural), object-oriented and functional
programming. It is often described as a "batteries included"
language due to its comprehensive standard library.[34][35]
Paradigm Multi-paradigm:
Guido van Rossum began working on Python in the late 1980s
object-oriented,[1]
as a successor to the ABC programming language and first
released it in 1991 as Python 0.9.0.[36] Python 2.0 was released
procedural
in 2000. Python 3.0, released in 2008, was a major revision (imperative),
not completely backward-compatible with earlier versions. functional,
Python 2.7.18, released in 2020, was the last release of structured,
Python 2.[37] reflective
Designed by Guido van
Python consistently ranks as one of the most popular
Rossum
programming languages.[38][39][40][41]
Developer Python Software
Foundation
History
First appeared 20 February
1991[2]
Python was conceived in the late 1980s[42] by Guido van
Rossum at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Stable release 3.11.2[3] / 8
Netherlands as a successor to the ABC programming language, February 2023
which was inspired by SETL,[43] capable of exception handling Preview release 3.12.0a6[4] / 7
and interfacing with the Amoeba operating system.[13] Its March 2023
implementation began in December 1989.[44] Van Rossum
Typing Duck, dynamic,
shouldered sole responsibility for the project, as the lead
discipline strong typing;[5]
developer, until 12 July 2018, when he announced his
"permanent vacation" from his responsibilities as Python's gradual (since
"benevolent dictator for life", a title the Python community 3.5, but ignored in
bestowed upon him to reflect his long-term commitment as the CPython)[6]
OS Windows,
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project's chief decision-maker.[45] In January 2019, active macOS,

Python core developers elected a five-member Steering Council Linux/UNIX,
to lead the project.[46][47] Android[7][8] and
more[9]
Python 2.0 was released on 16 October 2000, with many major
new features such as list comprehensions, cycle-detecting License Python Software
garbage collection, reference counting, and Unicode
Foundation
support.[48] Python 3.0, released on 3 December 2008, with License
many of its major features backported to Python 2.6.x[49] and
Filename .py, .pyi, .pyc,
2.7.x. Releases of Python 3 include the 2to3 utility, which
extensions .pyd, .pyw, .pyz
automates the translation of Python 2 code to Python 3.[50]
(since 3.5),[10]
Python 2.7's end-of-life was initially set for 2015, then .pyo (prior to
postponed to 2020 out of concern that a large body of existing 3.5)[11]
code could not easily be forward-ported to Python 3.[51][52] No Website python.org (https:/
further security patches or other improvements will be /www.python.org/)
released for it.[53][54] Currently only 3.7 and later are
Major implementations
supported. In 2021, Python 3.9.2 and 3.8.8 were expedited[55]
as all versions of Python (including 2.7[56]) had security issues CPython, PyPy, Stackless Python,
MicroPython, CircuitPython,
leading to possible remote code execution[57] and web cache
IronPython, Jython
poisoning.[58]
Dialects
[59]
In 2022, Python 3.10.4 and 3.9.12 were expedited and Cython, RPython, Starlark[12]
[60]
3.8.13, and 3.7.13, because of many security issues. When
Influenced by
Python 3.9.13 was released in May 2022, it was announced
that the 3.9 series (joining the older series 3.8 and 3.7) would ABC,[13] Ada,[14] ALGOL 68,[15]
only receive security fixes in the future.[61] On September 7, APL,[16] C,[17] C++,[18] CLU,[19]
2022, four new releases were made due to a potential denial- Dylan,[20] Haskell,[21][16] Icon,[22]
of-service attack: 3.10.7, 3.9.14, 3.8.14, and 3.7.14.[62][63] Lisp,[23] Modula-3,[15][18] Perl,[24]
Standard ML[16]
As of November 2022, Python 3.11 is the stable release.
Influenced
Notable changes from 3.10 include increased program
execution speed and improved error reporting.[64] Apache Groovy, Boo, Cobra,
CoffeeScript,[25] D, F#, GDScript,
Genie,[26] Go, JavaScript,[27][28]
Design philosophy and features Julia,[29] Nim, Ring,[30] Ruby,[31]
Swift[32]
Python is a multi-paradigm programming language. Object-
oriented programming and structured programming are fully Python Programming at
supported, and many of their features support functional Wikibooks
programming and aspect-oriented programming (including
metaprogramming[65] and metaobjects).[66] Many other paradigms are supported via extensions,
including design by contract[67][68] and logic programming.[69]
Python uses dynamic typing and a combination of reference counting and a cycle-detecting garbage
collector for memory management.[70] It uses dynamic name resolution (late binding), which
binds method and variable names during program execution.
Its design offers some support for functional programming in the Lisp
tradition. It has filter,mapandreduce functions; list comprehensions,
dictionaries, sets, and generator expressions.[71] The standard library has
two modules (itertools and functools) that implement functional
tools borrowed from Haskell and Standard ML.[72]
Its core philosophy is summarized in the document The Zen of Python

(PEP 20), which includes aphorisms such as:[73]
Beautiful is better than ugly.

Explicit is better than implicit.
The designer of Python,
Simple is better than complex.
Guido van Rossum, at
Complex is better than complicated. OSCON 2006
Readability counts.
Rather than building all of its functionality into its core, Python was designed to be highly
extensible via modules. This compact modularity has made it particularly popular as a means of
adding programmable interfaces to existing applications. Van Rossum's vision of a small core
language with a large standard library and easily extensible interpreter stemmed from his
frustrations with ABC, which espoused the opposite approach.[42]
Python strives for a simpler, less-cluttered syntax and grammar while giving developers a choice in
their coding methodology. In contrast to Perl's "there is more than one way to do it" motto, Python
embraces a "there should be one—and preferably only one—obvious way to do it" philosophy.[73]
Alex Martelli, a Fellow at the Python Software Foundation and Python book author, wrote: "To
describe something as 'clever' is not considered a compliment in the Python culture."[74]
Python's developers strive to avoid premature optimization and reject patches to non-critical parts
of the CPython reference implementation that would offer marginal increases in speed at the cost
of clarity.[75] When speed is important, a Python programmer can move time-critical functions to
extension modules written in languages such as C; or use PyPy, a just-in-time compiler. Cython is
also available, which translates a Python script into C and makes direct C-level API calls into the
Python interpreter.
Python's developers aim for it to be fun to use. This is reflected in its name—a tribute to the British
comedy group Monty Python[76]—and in occasionally playful approaches to tutorials and reference
materials, such as the use of the terms "spam" and "eggs" (a reference to a Monty Python sketch) in
examples, instead of the often-used "foo" and "bar".[77][78]
A common neologism in the Python community is pythonic, which has a wide range of meanings
related to program style. "Pythonic" code may use Python idioms well, be natural or show fluency
in the language, or conform with Python's minimalist philosophy and emphasis on readability.
Code that is difficult to understand or reads like a rough transcription from another programming
language is called unpythonic.[79][80]
Syntax and semantics

Python is meant to be an easily readable language. Its formatting is visually uncluttered and often
uses English keywords where other languages use punctuation. Unlike many other languages, it
does not use curly brackets to delimit blocks, and semicolons after statements are allowed but
rarely used. It has fewer syntactic exceptions and special cases than C or Pascal.[81]
Indentation
Python uses whitespace indentation, rather than curly brackets or keywords, to delimit blocks. An
increase in indentation comes after certain statements; a decrease in indentation signifies the end
of the current block.[82] Thus, the program's visual structure accurately represents its semantic
structure.[83] This feature is sometimes termed the off-side rule. Some other languages use
indentation this way; but in most, indentation has no semantic meaning. The recommended indent
size is four spaces.[84]
Statements and control flow

Python's statements include:
The assignment statement, using a single equals sign =

The if statement, which conditionally executes a block of code, along with else and elif (a
contraction of else-if)
The for statement, which iterates over an iterable object, capturing each element to a local
variable for use by the attached block
The while statement, which executes a block of code as long as its condition is true
The try statement, which allows exceptions raised in its attached code block to be caught and
handled by except clauses (or new syntax except* in Python 3.11 for exception groups[85]);
it also ensures that clean-up code in a finally block is always run regardless of how the
block exits
The raise statement, used to raise a specified exception or re-raise a caught exception
The class statement, which executes a block of code and attaches its local namespace to a
class, for use in object-oriented programming
The def statement, which defines a function or method
The with statement, which encloses a code block within a context manager (for example,
acquiring a lock before it is run, then releasing the lock; or opening and closing a file), allowing
resource-acquisition-is-initialization (RAII)-like behavior and replacing a common try/finally
idiom[86]
The break statement, which exits a loop
The continue statement, which skips the rest of the current iteration and continues with the
next
The del statement, which removes a variable—deleting the reference from the name to the
value, and producing an error if the variable is referred to before it is redefined
The pass statement, serving as a NOP, syntactically needed to create an empty code block
The assert statement, used in debugging to check for conditions that should apply
The yield statement, which returns a value from a generator function (and also an operator);
used to implement coroutines
The return statement, used to return a value from a function
The import and from statements, used to import modules whose functions or variables can
be used in the current program
The assignment statement (=) binds a name as a reference to a separate, dynamically allocated
object. Variables may subsequently be rebound at any time to any object. In Python, a variable
name is a generic reference holder without a fixed data type; however, it always refers to some
object with a type. This is called dynamic typing—in contrast to statically-typed languages, where
each variable may contain only a value of a certain type.
Python does not support tail call optimization or first-class continuations, and, according to Van
Rossum, it never will.[87][88] However, better support for coroutine-like functionality is provided
by extending Python's generators.[89] Before 2.5, generators were lazy iterators; data was passed
unidirectionally out of the generator. From Python 2.5 on, it is possible to pass data back into a
generator function; and from version 3.3, it can be passed through multiple stack levels.[90]
Expressions
Python's expressions include:
The +, -, and * operators for mathematical addition, subtraction, and multiplication are similar
to other languages, but the behavior of division differs. There are two types of divisions in
Python: floor division (or integer division) // and floating-point/division.[91] Python uses the **
operator for exponentiation.
Python uses the + operator for string concatenation. Python uses the * operator for duplicating
a string a specified number of times.
The @ infix operator. It is intended to be used by libraries such as NumPy for matrix
multiplication.[92][93]
The syntax :=, called the "walrus operator", was introduced in Python 3.8. It assigns values to
variables as part of a larger expression.[94]
In Python, == compares by value. Python's is operator may be used to compare object
identities (comparison by reference), and comparisons may be chained—for example, a <= b
<= c.
Python uses and, or, and not as boolean operators.
Python has a type of expression called a list comprehension, as well as a more general
expression called a generator expression.[71]
Anonymous functions are implemented using lambda expressions; however, there may be only
one expression in each body.
Conditional expressions are written as x if c else y[95] (different in order of operands from
the c ? x : y operator common to many other languages).
Python makes a distinction between lists and tuples. Lists are written as [1, 2, 3], are
mutable, and cannot be used as the keys of dictionaries (dictionary keys must be immutable in
Python). Tuples, written as (1, 2, 3), are immutable and thus can be used as keys of
dictionaries, provided all of the tuple's elements are immutable. The + operator can be used to
concatenate two tuples, which does not directly modify their contents, but produces a new tuple
containing the elements of both. Thus, given the variable t initially equal to (1, 2, 3),
executing t = t + (4, 5) first evaluates t + (4, 5), which yields (1, 2, 3, 4, 5),
which is then assigned back to t—thereby effectively "modifying the contents" of t while
conforming to the immutable nature of tuple objects. Parentheses are optional for tuples in
unambiguous contexts.[96]
Python features sequence unpacking where multiple expressions, each evaluating to anything
that can be assigned (to a variable, writable property, etc.) are associated in an identical
manner to that forming tuple literals—and, as a whole, are put on the left-hand side of the
equal sign in an assignment statement. The statement expects an iterable object on the right-
hand side of the equal sign that produces the same number of values as the provided writable
expressions; when iterated through them, it assigns each of the produced values to the
corresponding expression on the left.[97]
Python has a "string format" operator % that functions analogously to printf format strings in
C—e.g. "spam=%s eggs=%d" % ("blah", 2) evaluates to "spam=blah eggs=2". In
Python 2.6+ and 3+, this was supplemented by the format() method of the str class, e.g.
"spam={0} eggs={1}".format("blah", 2). Python 3.6 added "f-strings": spam =
"blah"; eggs = 2; f'spam={spam} eggs={eggs}'.[98]
Strings in Python can be concatenated by "adding" them (with the same operator as for adding
integers and floats), e.g. "spam" + "eggs" returns "spameggs". If strings contain numbers,
they are added as strings rather than integers, e.g. "2" + "2" returns "22".
Python has various string literals:
Delimited by single or double quote marks; unlike in Unix shells, Perl, and Perl-influenced
languages, single and double quote marks work the same. Both use the backslash (\) as
an escape character. String interpolation became available in Python 3.6 as "formatted
string literals".[98]
Triple-quoted (beginning and ending with three single or double quote marks), which may
span multiple lines and function like here documents in shells, Perl, and Ruby.
Raw string varieties, denoted by prefixing the string literal with r. Escape sequences are
not interpreted; hence raw strings are useful where literal backslashes are common, such
as regular expressions and Windows-style paths. (Compare "@-quoting" in C#.)
Python has array index and array slicing expressions in lists, denoted as a[key],
a[start:stop] or a[start:stop:step]. Indexes are zero-based, and negative indexes
are relative to the end. Slices take elements from the start index up to, but not including, the
stop index. The third slice parameter called step or stride, allows elements to be skipped and
reversed. Slice indexes may be omitted—for example, a[:] returns a copy of the entire list.
Each element of a slice is a shallow copy.
In Python, a distinction between expressions and statements is rigidly enforced, in contrast to

languages such as Common Lisp, Scheme, or Ruby. This leads to duplicating some functionality.
For example:
List comprehensions vs. for-loops

Conditional expressions vs. if blocks
The eval() vs. exec() built-in functions (in Python 2, exec is a statement); the former is for
expressions, the latter is for statements
Statements cannot be a part of an expression—so list and other comprehensions or lambda

expressions, all being expressions, cannot contain statements. A particular case is that an
assignment statement such as a = 1 cannot form part of the conditional expression of a
conditional statement. This has the advantage of avoiding a classic C error of mistaking an
assignment operator = for an equality operator == in conditions: if (c = 1) { ... } is
syntactically valid (but probably unintended) C code, but if c = 1: ... causes a syntax error in
Python.
Methods
Methods on objects are functions attached to the object's class; the syntax
instance.method(argument) is, for normal methods and functions, syntactic sugar for
Class.method(instance, argument). Python methods have an explicit self parameter to
access instance data, in contrast to the implicit self (or this) in some other object-oriented
programming languages (e.g., C++, Java, Objective-C, Ruby).[99] Python also provides methods,
often called dunder methods (due to their names beginning and ending with double-underscores),
to allow user-defined classes to modify how they are handled by native operations including length,
comparison, in arithmetic operations and type conversion.[100]
Typing
Python uses duck typing and has typed objects but untyped variable names. Type constraints are
not checked at compile time; rather, operations on an object
may fail, signifying that it is not of a suitable type. Despite
being dynamically typed, Python is strongly typed, forbidding
operations that are not well-defined (for example, adding a
number to a string) rather than silently attempting to make
sense of them.
Python allows programmers to define their own types using

classes, most often used for object-oriented programming. New
instances of classes are constructed by calling the class (for
example, SpamClass() or EggsClass()), and the classes are
instances of the metaclass type (itself an instance of itself),
allowing metaprogramming and reflection.
Before version 3.0, Python had two kinds of classes (both using

the same syntax): old-style and new-style,[101] current Python
versions only support the semantics new style.
The standard type hierarchy in
Python supports gradual typing.[102] Python's syntax allows Python 3
specifying static types, but they are not checked in the default
implementation, CPython. An experimental optional static
type-checker, mypy, supports compile-time type checking.[103]
Summary of Python 3's built-in types

Type Mutability Description Syntax examples
True
bool immutable Boolean value
False
bytearray(b'Some ASCII')
bytearray mutable Sequence of bytes bytearray(b"Some ASCII")
bytearray([119, 105, 107, 105])
b'Some ASCII'
bytes immutable Sequence of bytes b"Some ASCII"
bytes([119, 105, 107, 105])
Complex number with

3+2.7j
complex immutable real and imaginary
3 + 2.7j
parts
Associative array (or

dictionary) of key and
value pairs; can
{'key1': 1.0, 3: False}
dict mutable contain mixed types
{}
(keys and values),
keys must be a
hashable type
An ellipsis placeholder
types.EllipsisType immutable to be used as an index ...

in NumPy arrays Ellipsis
Double-precision
floating-point number.
The precision is
machine-dependent
float immutable but in practice is 1.33333
generally implemented
as a 64-bit IEEE 754
number with 53 bits of
precision.[104]
Unordered set,
contains no
frozenset immutable duplicates; can frozenset([4.0, 'string', True])
contain mixed types, if
hashable
Integer of unlimited
int immutable 42
magnitude[105]
List, can contain [4.0, 'string', True]

list mutable
mixed types []
An object representing
the absence of a
types.NoneType immutable None
value, often called null
in other languages
A placeholder that can

be returned from
overloaded operators
types.NotImplementedType immutable NotImplemented
to indicate
unsupported operand
types.
An immutable
sequence of numbers
commonly used for range(-1, 10)
range immutable looping a specific range(10, -5, -2)
number of times in
for loops[106]
Unordered set,
contains no
{4.0, 'string', True}
set mutable duplicates; can
set()
contain mixed types, if
hashable
'Wikipedia'
"Wikipedia"
"""Spanning
A character string: multiple
str immutable lines"""
sequence of Unicode
codepoints
Spanning
multiple
lines
(4.0, 'string', True)

Can contain mixed
tuple immutable ('single element',)
types
()
Arithmetic operations
Python has the usual symbols for arithmetic operators (+, -, *, /), the floor division operator //
and the modulo operation % (where the remainder can be negative, e.g. 4 % -3 == -2). It also
has ** for exponentiation, e.g. 5**3 == 125 and 9**0.5 == 3.0, and a matrix-multiplication
operator @ .[107] These operators work like in traditional math; with the same precedence rules, the
operators infix (+ and - can also be unary to represent positive and negative numbers
respectively).
The division between integers produces floating-point results. The behavior of division has
changed significantly over time:[108]
Current Python (i.e. since 3.0) changed / to always be floating-point division, e.g.
5/2 == 2.5.
The floor division // operator was introduced. So 7//3 == 2, -7//3 == -3, 7.5//3 ==
2.0 and -7.5//3 == -3.0. Adding from __future__ import division causes a
module used in Python 2.7 to use Python 3.0 rules for division (see above).
In Python terms, / is true division (or simply division), and // is floor division. / before version
3.0 is classic division.[108]
Rounding towards negative infinity, though different from most languages, adds consistency. For
instance, it means that the equation (a + b)//b == a//b + 1 is always true. It also means
that the equation b*(a//b) + a%b == a is valid for both positive and negative values of a.
However, maintaining the validity of this equation means that while the result of a%b is, as
expected, in the half-open interval [0, b), where b is a positive integer, it has to lie in the interval
(b, 0] when b is negative.[109]
Python provides a round function for rounding a float to the nearest integer. For tie-breaking,
Python 3 uses round to even: round(1.5) and round(2.5) both produce 2.[110] Versions before
3 used round-away-from-zero: round(0.5) is 1.0, round(-0.5) is −1.0.[111]
Python allows boolean expressions with multiple equality relations in a manner that is consistent
with general use in mathematics. For example, the expression a < b < c tests whether a is less
than b and b is less than c.[112] C-derived languages interpret this expression differently: in C, the
expression would first evaluate a < b, resulting in 0 or 1, and that result would then be compared
with c.[113]
Python uses arbitrary-precision arithmetic for all integer operations. The Decimal type/class in
the decimal module provides decimal floating-point numbers to a pre-defined arbitrary precision
and several rounding modes.[114] The Fraction class in the fractions module provides
arbitrary precision for rational numbers.[115]
Due to Python's extensive mathematics library, and the third-party library NumPy that further
extends the native capabilities, it is frequently used as a scientific scripting language to aid in
problems such as numerical data processing and manipulation.[116][117]
Programming examples
Hello world program:
print('Hello, world!')
Program to calculate the factorial of a positive integer:
1 n = int(input('Type a number, and its factorial will be printed: '))

2
3 if n < 0:
4 raise ValueError('You must enter a non-negative integer')
5
6 factorial = 1
7 for i in range(2, n + 1):
8 factorial *= i
9
10 print(factorial)
Libraries
Python's large standard library[118] provides tools suited to many tasks and is commonly cited as
one of its greatest strengths. For Internet-facing applications, many standard formats and
protocols such as MIME and HTTP are supported. It includes modules for creating graphical user
interfaces, connecting to relational databases, generating pseudorandom numbers, arithmetic with
arbitrary-precision decimals,[119] manipulating regular expressions, and unit testing.
Some parts of the standard library are covered by specifications—for example, the Web Server
Gateway Interface (WSGI) implementation wsgiref follows PEP 333[120]—but most are specified
by their code, internal documentation, and test suites. However, because most of the standard
library is cross-platform Python code, only a few modules need altering or rewriting for variant
implementations.
As of 14 November 2022, the Python Package Index (PyPI), the official repository for third-party
Python software, contains over 415,000[121] packages with a wide range of functionality, including:
Automation
Data analytics
Databases
Documentation
Graphical user interfaces
Image processing
Machine learning
Mobile apps
Multimedia
Computer networking
Scientific computing
System administration
Test frameworks
Text processing
Web frameworks
Web scraping
Development environments
Most Python implementations (including CPython) include a read–eval–print loop (REPL),
permitting them to function as a command line interpreter for which users enter statements
sequentially and receive results immediately.
Python also comes with an Integrated development environment (IDE) called IDLE, which is more
beginner-oriented.
Other shells, including IDLE and IPython, add further abilities such as improved auto-completion,
session state retention, and syntax highlighting.
As well as standard desktop integrated development environments, there are Web browser-based
IDEs, including SageMath, for developing science- and math-related programs; PythonAnywhere,
a browser-based IDE and hosting environment; and Canopy IDE, a commercial IDE emphasizing
scientific computing.[122]
Implementations
Reference implementation
CPython is the reference implementation of Python. It is written in C, meeting the C89 standard
(Python 3.11 uses C11[123]) with several select C99 features. CPython includes its own C extensions,
but third-party extensions are not limited to older C versions—e.g. they can be implemented with
C11 or C++.[124][125]) It compiles Python programs into an intermediate bytecode[126] which is then
executed by its virtual machine.[127] CPython is distributed with a large standard library written in
a mixture of C and native Python, and is available for many platforms, including Windows (starting
with Python 3.9, the Python installer deliberately fails to install on Windows 7 and 8;[128][129]
Windows XP was supported until Python 3.5) and most modern Unix-like systems, including
macOS (and Apple M1 Macs, since Python 3.9.1, with experimental installer) and unofficial support
for e.g. VMS.[130] Platform portability was one of its earliest priorities.[131] (During Python 1 and 2
development, even OS/2 and Solaris were supported,[132] but support has since been dropped for
many platforms.)
Other implementations
PyPy is a fast, compliant interpreter of Python 2.7 and 3.8.[133][134] Its just-in-time compiler
often brings a significant speed improvement over CPython but some libraries written in C
cannot be used with it.[135]
Stackless Python is a significant fork of CPython that implements microthreads; it does not use
the call stack in the same way, thus allowing massively concurrent programs. PyPy also has a
stackless version.[136]
MicroPython and CircuitPython are Python 3 variants optimized for microcontrollers, including
Lego Mindstorms EV3.[137]
Pyston is a variant of the Python runtime that uses just-in-time compilation to speed up the
execution of Python programs.[138]
Cinder is a performance-oriented fork of CPython 3.8 that contains a number of optimizations
including bytecode inline caching, eager evaluation of coroutines, a method-at-a-time JIT, and
an experimental bytecode compiler.[139]
Unsupported implementations
Other just-in-time Python compilers have been developed, but are now unsupported:
Google began a project named Unladen Swallow in 2009, with the aim of speeding up the
Python interpreter fivefold by using the LLVM, and of improving its multithreading ability to
scale to thousands of cores,[140] while ordinary implementations suffer from the global
interpreter lock.
Psyco is a discontinued just-in-time specializing compiler that integrates with CPython and
transforms bytecode to machine code at runtime. The emitted code is specialized for certain
data types and is faster than the standard Python code. Psyco does not support Python 2.7 or
later.
PyS60 was a Python 2 interpreter for Series 60 mobile phones released by Nokia in 2005. It
implemented many of the modules from the standard library and some additional modules for
integrating with the Symbian operating system. The Nokia N900 also supports Python with
GTK widget libraries, enabling programs to be written and run on the target device.[141]
Cross-compilers to other languages

There are several compilers to high-level object languages, with either unrestricted Python, a
restricted subset of Python, or a language similar to Python as the source language:
Brython,[142] Transcrypt[143][144] and Pyjs (latest release in 2012) compile Python to JavaScript.
Cython compiles (a superset of) Python to C (while the resulting code is also usable with
Python and also e.g. C++).
Nuitka compiles Python into C.[145]
Numba uses LLVM to compile a subset of Python to machine code.
Pythran compiles a subset of Python 3 to C++ (C++11).[146][147][148]
RPython can be compiled to C, and is used to build the PyPy interpreter of Python.
The Python → 11l → C++ transpiler[149] compiles a subset of Python 3 to C++ (C++17).
Specialized:
MyHDL is a Python-based hardware description language (HDL), that converts MyHDL code to
Verilog or VHDL code.
Older projects (or not to be used with Python 3.x and latest syntax):
Google's Grumpy (latest release in 2017) transpiles Python 2 to Go.[150][151][152]

IronPython allows running Python 2.7 programs (and an alpha, released in 2021, is also
available for "Python 3.4, although features and behaviors from later versions may be
included"[153]) on the .NET Common Language Runtime.[154]
Jython compiles Python 2.7 to Java bytecode, allowing the use of the Java libraries from a
Python program.[155]
Pyrex (latest release in 2010) and Shed Skin (latest release in 2013) compile to C and C++
respectively.
Performance
Performance comparison of various Python implementations on a non-numerical (combinatorial)
workload was presented at EuroSciPy '13.[156] Python's performance compared to other
programming languages is also benchmarked by The Computer Language Benchmarks Game.[157]
Development
Python's development is conducted largely through the Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP)
process, the primary mechanism for proposing major new features, collecting community input on
issues, and documenting Python design decisions.[158] Python coding style is covered in PEP 8.[159]
Outstanding PEPs are reviewed and commented on by the Python community and the steering
council.[158]
Enhancement of the language corresponds with the development of the CPython reference
implementation. The mailing list python-dev is the primary forum for the language's development.
Specific issues were originally discussed in the Roundup bug tracker hosted at by the
foundation.[160] In 2022, all issues and discussions were migrated to GitHub.[161] Development
originally took place on a self-hosted source-code repository running Mercurial, until Python
moved to GitHub in January 2017.[162]
CPython's public releases come in three types, distinguished by which part of the version number is
incremented:
Backward-incompatible versions, where code is expected to break and needs to be manually

ported. The first part of the version number is incremented. These releases happen
infrequently—version 3.0 was released 8 years after 2.0. According to Guido van Rossum, a
version 4.0 is very unlikely to ever happen.[163]
Major or "feature" releases are largely compatible with the previous version but introduce new
features. The second part of the version number is incremented. Starting with Python 3.9,
these releases are expected to happen annually.[164][165] Each major version is supported by
bug fixes for several years after its release.[166]
Bugfix releases,[167] which introduce no new features, occur about every 3 months and are
made when a sufficient number of bugs have been fixed upstream since the last release.
Security vulnerabilities are also patched in these releases. The third and final part of the
version number is incremented.[167]
Many alpha, beta, and release-candidates are also released as previews and for testing before final
releases. Although there is a rough schedule for each release, they are often delayed if the code is
not ready. Python's development team monitors the state of the code by running the large unit test
suite during development.[168]
The major academic conference on Python is PyCon. There are also special Python mentoring
programs, such as Pyladies.
Python 3.10 deprecated wstr (to be removed in Python 3.12; meaning Python extensions[169] need
to be modified by then),[170] and added pattern matching to the language.[171]
API documentation generators

Tools that can generate documentation for Python API include pydoc (available as part of the
standard library), Sphinx, Pdoc and its forks, Doxygen and Graphviz, among others.[172]
Naming
Python's name is derived from the British comedy group Monty Python, whom Python creator
Guido van Rossum enjoyed while developing the language. Monty Python references appear
frequently in Python code and culture;[173] for example, the metasyntactic variables often used in
Python literature are spam and eggs instead of the traditional foo and bar.[173][174] The official
Python documentation also contains various references to Monty Python routines.[175][176]
The prefix Py- is used to show that something is related to Python. Examples of the use of this
prefix in names of Python applications or libraries include Pygame, a binding of SDL to Python
(commonly used to create games); PyQt and PyGTK, which bind Qt and GTK to Python
respectively; and PyPy, a Python implementation originally written in Python.
Popularity
Since 2003, Python has consistently ranked in the top ten most popular programming languages in
the TIOBE Programming Community Index where as of December 2022 it was the most popular
language (ahead of C, C++, and Java).[40] It was selected Programming Language of the Year (for
"the highest rise in ratings in a year") in 2007, 2010, 2018, and 2020 (the only language to have
done so four times as of 2020[177]).
An empirical study found that scripting languages, such as Python, are more productive than
conventional languages, such as C and Java, for programming problems involving string
manipulation and search in a dictionary, and determined that memory consumption was often
"better than Java and not much worse than C or C++".[178]
Large organizations that use Python include Wikipedia, Google,[179] Yahoo!,[180] CERN,[181]
NASA,[182] Facebook,[183] Amazon, Instagram,[184] Spotify,[185] and some smaller entities like
ILM[186] and ITA.[187] The social news networking site Reddit was written mostly in Python.[188]
Uses
Python can serve as a scripting language for web applications, e.g., via mod_wsgi for the Apache
webserver.[189] With Web Server Gateway Interface, a standard API has evolved to facilitate these
applications. Web frameworks like Django, Pylons, Pyramid, TurboGears, web2py, Tornado, Flask,
Bottle, and Zope support developers in the design and maintenance of complex applications. Pyjs
and IronPython can be used to develop the client-side of Ajax-based applications. SQLAlchemy can
be used as a data mapper to a relational database. Twisted is a framework to program
communications between computers, and is used (for example) by Dropbox.
Libraries such as NumPy, SciPy, and Matplotlib allow the

effective use of Python in scientific computing,[190][191] with
specialized libraries such as Biopython and Astropy providing
domain-specific functionality. SageMath is a computer algebra
system with a notebook interface programmable in Python: its
library covers many aspects of mathematics, including algebra,
combinatorics, numerical mathematics, number theory, and
calculus.[192] OpenCV has Python bindings with a rich set of
features for computer vision and image processing.[193]
Python Powered
Python is commonly used in artificial intelligence projects and
machine learning projects with the help of libraries like
TensorFlow, Keras, Pytorch, and scikit-learn.[194][195][196][197] As a scripting language with a
modular architecture, simple syntax, and rich text processing tools, Python is often used for
natural language processing.[198]
Python can also be used to create games, with libraries such as Pygame, which can make 2D games.
Python has been successfully embedded in many software products as a scripting language,
including in finite element method software such as Abaqus, 3D parametric modelers like
FreeCAD, 3D animation packages such as 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Lightwave, Houdini,
Maya, modo, MotionBuilder, Softimage, the visual effects compositor Nuke, 2D imaging programs
like GIMP,[199] Inkscape, Scribus and Paint Shop Pro,[200] and musical notation programs like
scorewriter and capella. GNU Debugger uses Python as a pretty printer to show complex structures
such as C++ containers. Esri promotes Python as the best choice for writing scripts in ArcGIS.[201]
It has also been used in several video games,[202][203] and has been adopted as first of the three
available programming languages in Google App Engine, the other two being Java and Go.[204]
Many operating systems include Python as a standard component. It ships with most Linux
distributions,[205] AmigaOS 4 (using Python 2.7), FreeBSD (as a package), NetBSD, and OpenBSD
(as a package) and can be used from the command line (terminal). Many Linux distributions use
installers written in Python: Ubuntu uses the Ubiquity installer, while Red Hat Linux and Fedora
Linux use the Anaconda installer. Gentoo Linux uses Python in its package management system,
Portage.
Python is used extensively in the information security industry, including in exploit

development.[206][207]
Most of the Sugar software for the One Laptop per Child XO, developed at Sugar Labs since 2008,
is written in Python.[208] The Raspberry Pi single-board computer project has adopted Python as
its main user-programming language.
LibreOffice includes Python and intends to replace Java with Python. Its Python Scripting Provider
is a core feature[209] since Version 4.0 from 7 February 2013.
Languages influenced by Python

Python's design and philosophy have influenced many other programming languages:
Boo uses indentation, a similar syntax, and a similar object model.[210]

Cobra uses indentation and a similar syntax, and its Acknowledgements document lists Python
first among languages that influenced it.[211]
CoffeeScript, a programming language that cross-compiles to JavaScript, has Python-inspired
syntax.
ECMAScript/JavaScript borrowed iterators and generators from Python.[212]
GDScript, a scripting language very similar to Python, built-in to the Godot game engine.[213]
Go is designed for the "speed of working in a dynamic language like Python"[214] and shares
the same syntax for slicing arrays.
Groovy was motivated by the desire to bring the Python design philosophy to Java.[215]
Julia was designed to be "as usable for general programming as Python".[29]
Nim uses indentation and similar syntax.[216]
Ruby's creator, Yukihiro Matsumoto, has said: "I wanted a scripting language that was more
powerful than Perl, and more object-oriented than Python. That's why I decided to design my
own language."[217]
Swift, a programming language developed by Apple, has some Python-inspired syntax.[218]
Python's development practices have also been emulated by other languages. For example, the
practice of requiring a document describing the rationale for, and issues surrounding, a change to
the language (in Python, a PEP) is also used in Tcl,[219] Erlang,[220] and Swift.[221]
See also
Python syntax and semantics Computer
pip (package manager) programming
portal
List of programming languages
Free and open-
History of programming languages source software
portal
Comparison of programming languages
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project's chief decision-maker.[45] In January 2019, active macOS,

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Beautiful is better than ugly.

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Complex number with

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