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'''Python''' is a high-level programming language created by Guido van Rossum in 1991.  It is a multi-paradigm language with a fully dynamic type system and automatic garbage collection.

'''Python''' is a high-level programming language created by Guido van Rossum in 1991.  It is a multi-paradigm language with a fully dynamic type system and automatic garbage collection.

The most popular implementation of Python is the CPython implementation maintained by the Python Software Foundation. Currently developed under an [[open source]] model and licensed under its own Python Software Foundation License, CPython is a byte-code interpreter that comes with a rich library that includes modules for creating graphical user interface, relational database, arbitrary precision arithmetic, complex arithmetic, unit testing, regular expression, XML parsing, C/C++ interfacing and zip compression; combined, these features makes it a powerful glue language between lower-level machine languages and higher level languages and programs. <ref> {{cite web|url=http://python.org/about/ | title= About Python | work=Python Software Foundation }}</ref>. In addition to the built-in libraries, python is extended by a multitude of third party packages, many of which are open source that provide features not available in the python proper.  For example, the twin packages scipy<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.scipy.org/ | title = Scipy | work = Enthought}}</ref> and numpy<ref>{{cite web|url=http://numpy.scipy.org/ |title = Numpy|work=Enthought}}</ref> extend python with a large collection of functions for scientific work and numerical analysis  giving python powered applications access to optimized algorithms and high level math functions that rivals that of leading proprietary software packages like [[Mathematica]] and [[Matlab]]. Other third party packages allow programmers to write fully featured [[GUI]]<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/intro| title = PyQt}}</ref> and 3D<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.panda3d.org/| title = Panda3D}}</ref> applications.

The most popular implementation of Python is the CPython implementation maintained by the Python Software Foundation. Currently developed under an [[open source]] model and licensed under its own Python Software Foundation License, CPython is a byte-code interpreter that comes with a rich library that includes modules for creating graphical user interface, relational database, arbitrary precision arithmetic, complex arithmetic, unit testing, regular expression, XML parsing, C/C++ interfacing and zip compression; combined, these features makes it a powerful glue language between lower-level machine languages and higher level languages and programs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://python.org/about/ | title= About Python | work=Python Software Foundation }}</ref> In addition to the built-in libraries, python is extended by a multitude of third party packages, many of which are open source that provide features not available in the python proper.  For example, the twin packages scipy<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.scipy.org/ | title = Scipy | work = Enthought}}</ref> and numpy<ref>{{cite web|url=http://numpy.scipy.org/ |title = Numpy|work=Enthought}}</ref> extend python with a large collection of functions for scientific work and numerical analysis  giving python powered applications access to optimized algorithms and high level math functions that rivals that of leading proprietary software packages like [[Mathematica]] and [[Matlab]]. Other third party packages allow programmers to write fully featured [[GUI]]<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/intro| title = PyQt}}</ref> and 3D<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.panda3d.org/| title = Panda3D}}</ref> applications.

Other popular Python implementations include [[Jython]], written in [[Java]], and [[IronPython]], for [[Microsoft]]'s [[.Net framework|.NET framework]].

Other popular Python implementations include [[Jython]], written in [[Java]], and [[IronPython]], for [[Microsoft]]'s [[.Net framework|.NET framework]].

  print 'Hello, World!'

  print 'Hello, World!'

==See Also==

==See also==

*[http://www.python.org/ Python Software Foundation]

*[http://www.python.org/ Python Software Foundation]

*[http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=IronPython IronPython]

*[http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=IronPython IronPython]