Python
Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. It combines remarkable power with very clear syntax, and isn't difficult to learn. It has modules, classes, exceptions, very high level data types, and dynamic typing. There are interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems (Tk, Mac, MFC, GTK+, Qt, wxWindows). New built-in modules are easily written in C or C++. Python is also usable as an extension language for applications that need a programmable interface.
| Tags | Software Development Interpreters |
|---|---|
| Licenses | Python |
| Operating Systems | OS Independent |
| Implementation | C Python |
Recent releases
- 20 Mar 2008 03:45
Changes: An issue with the deallocation of array objects when allocation ran out of memory was fixed. An array test case that was incorrect on 64-bit systems was removed. Te test_struct.test_crasher, which was meaningful only on 32-bit systems, was removed.
- 06 Dec 2004 23:45
Changes: This release added function/method decorators, arbitrary precision decimals, built-in sets, a unification of integer and long integer, generator expressions, east Asian text encoding codecs, improved process spawning, and many other improvements in the language and standard library.
- 03 Oct 2004 03:34
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- 30 Dec 2003 13:22
Changes: This release fixes a number of bugs, including a couple of serious errors with weakrefs and the cyclic garbage collector. There are also several fixes to the standard library.
- 22 Nov 2003 15:37
Changes: This release includes a workaround for a compilation bug under OpenBSD, as well as some fixes in the autoconf and md5sum modules.
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Recent commentsRe: WARNING: make test plays a sound
> Of course Python is suppose to scare
> you. "No one
> *expects* the Spanish Inquisition."
>
What's so frightening in Python? Python is more than simple programming language... to study and perception.
Re: WARNING: make test plays a sound
Of course Python is suppose to scare you. "No one
*expects* the Spanish Inquisition."
WARNING: make test plays a sound
I built Python-2.2.2. When it was done I executed
"make check" and continued with my other stuff
and didn't think more about the test going on in
the background.
Suddenly I got a shock when I heard a strange
sound from my computer sound system. I could not
identify it and assumed that I had been cracked
and someone was playing with me. I immediately
disconnected my network and started investigating
without finding anything suspicious. I wondered
if I had lost my connection to reallity or if I
had gotten otherwise mentally ill.
Finally I returned to the shell with the python
build and ran "make check" again because I didn't
know what else to do. After I while I heard the
sound again and got another shock. Then I thought
it would be something related to Python and
executed "find -name *.wav", nothing, "find -name
*.ogg", nothing, "find -name *.au",
"./Lib/test/audiotest.au"! I played the sound and
recognized it as the strange sound I heard
before. That was a relief!
Is Python supposed to scare the shit out of
paranoid people like me?