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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows 98
- Date added: January 08, 2001
- Total Downloads: 15,248
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From ActiveState :Python is an interactive, interpreted, object-oriented programming language. Its clean syntax and elegant object model make it a boon for occasional and new programmers, while its powerful module and package system make it a favorite of experienced systems developers. Python is used in a variety of domains, from high schools, where it is used to teach elementary programming principles, to national laboratories, where it is used to steer supercomputers.
ActivePython is ActiveState’s free binary distribution of Python for the Linux, Solaris, and Windows platforms. ActivePython enables programmers to get up and running faster with precompiled libraries, which run on all the popular operating systems, and with the numerous Windows-specific extensions by Mark Hammond, Senior Python Developer, ActiveState. Build 202 is the first ActivePython release based on the 2.0 version of Python.
Python 2.0 has the following major new features:
- A new garbage collection mechanism, which allows reclaiming of unused cycles. This is enabled in ActivePython 202.
- Augmented assignment: Instead of typing x = x + y, one can now use x += y.
- List comprehensions and the zip() are built-in, which together alleviate the need for many uses of map() and filter()
- Better Unicode and regular expression handling.
- Extended import statement, which allows you to give a new name to modules as they are imported. For example: import win32com.client as win32client
- An extension to the print statement, which allows easy redirection of print arguments to file objects.
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