Python
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Python is an interpreted programming language created by Guido van Rossum in 1990. Python is fully dynamically typed and uses automatic memory management; it is thus similar to Perl, Ruby, Scheme, Smalltalk, and Tcl. Python is developed as an open source project, managed by the non-profit Python Software Foundation.
- Python 2.5.2 — 2008-02-22
- Python 2.5.1 — 2007-04-18
- Python 2.4.4 — 2006-10-18
- Python 2.4.2 — 2005-09-28
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Properties
- Python is strongly typed (i.e. types are enforced);
- dynamically, implicitly typed (i.e. you don't have to declare variables);
- case sensitive (i.e. var and VAR are two different variables); and
- object-oriented (i.e. everything is an object).
Reserved words (native to Python)
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See also
- pypi - Python Package Index
- SciPy
- NumPy
- Parallel Python ("pp" module)
- TurboGears
- Pyparsing (with Pyparsing introduction: BNF to code and wikipedia:Backus–Naur form)
- PyEphem — an astronomy library for Python
External links
- Python.org — Official site
- PythonInfo Wiki
- Perl/Python Phrasebook
- Rosetta Code
- Yet Another Rosetta Code Problem (Perl, Ruby, Python, Haskell, ...)
- Python 2.5 Quick Reference
- Byte of Python
- pydoc.org: Python Documentation Online
- Using the python wikipediabot
- Calculating phi/psi angles for the "Top 500" PDB files
- wikipedia:python
Online books/tutorials
- Building Skills in Python: A Programmer's Introduction to Python — by Steven F. Lott (2007)
- Beginning Python for Bioinformatics
- Python course in Bioinformatics
- Learn Python in 10 minutes — from Poromenos's Stuff
- Dive Into Python — Python from novice to pro — download entire eBook.
- Python 101 cheat sheet
- Python HOWTOs
