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*[http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/smug/ Smug] — a wiki built with [[git]] as the backend (also using Python and [http://djangoproject.com/ Djanjo])
 
*[http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/smug/ Smug] — a wiki built with [[git]] as the backend (also using Python and [http://djangoproject.com/ Djanjo])
 
*[http://www.newartisans.com/blog_files/git.versioned.data.store.php#unique-entry-id-69 gitshelve] — using [[git]] as a versioned data store in Python
 
*[http://www.newartisans.com/blog_files/git.versioned.data.store.php#unique-entry-id-69 gitshelve] — using [[git]] as a versioned data store in Python
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*[http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/PADS/ PADS] — a library of Python Algorithms and Data Structures implemented by David Eppstein of the University of California, Irvine.
 
===Graphics===
 
===Graphics===
 
*[http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ Python Imaging Library (PIL)]
 
*[http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ Python Imaging Library (PIL)]

Revision as of 04:08, 29 June 2008

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.

see: NumPy for tips on using this module.

Version history

  • 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

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)

and		elif		global		or
assert		else		if		pass
break		except		import		print
class		exec		in		raise
continue	finally		is		return
def		for		lambda		try
del		from		not		while

See also

Graphics

Google

Bioinformatics

External links

Online books/tutorials

Techniques

Bioinformatics