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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Python</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="push.html" title="push"/><link rel="next" href="../Q.html" title="Q"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Python</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="push.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="../Q.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Python"/><dt xmlns="" id="Python"><b>Python</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/pi:<3A>thon/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> In the words of its author, “<span class="quote">the other scripting
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language</span>” (other than <a href="Perl.html"><i class="glossterm">Perl</i></a>, that is).
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Python's design is notably clean, elegant, and well thought through; it
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tends to attract the sort of programmers who find Perl grubby and exiguous.
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Some people revolt at its use of whitespace to define logical structure by
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indentation, objecting that this harks back to the horrible old fixed-field
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languages of the 1960s. Python's relationship with Perl is rather like the
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<a href="../B/BSD.html"><i class="glossterm">BSD</i></a> community's relationship to
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<a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a> — it's the smaller party in a (usually
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friendly) rivalry, but the average quality of its developers is generally
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conceded to be rather higher than in the larger community it competes with.
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There's a Python resource page at <a href="http://www.python.org" target="_top">http://www.python.org</a>. See also
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<a href="../G/Guido.html"><i class="glossterm">Guido</i></a>, <a href="../B/BDFL.html"><i class="glossterm">BDFL</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="push.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="../Q.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">push<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>Q</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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