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Review

This is a quick review applies to version 2.5

Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days. Many Python programmers report substantial productivity gains and feel the language encourages the development of higher quality, more maintainable code.
Python runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, OS/2, Amiga, Palm Handhelds, and Nokia mobile phones. Python has also been ported to the Java and .NET virtual machines.

The following full-length review applies to version 2.2

Python is a programming language used in various applications, which provides a dynamic and powerful tool to the user. It is commonly used as a script language. It is similar to other programming languages such as Ruby, Java, Tcl, Perl or Scheme. But what sets it apart from most languages is its use of whitespace as block delimiters.

Python is distributed under the open source license, which makes it free to distribute and use. It also has an established community to help other python users; python's community organizes conferences all around the world, and even has a wiki web page to help new users with whatever they may bump into.

There are a number of new features included in the release of Python 2.2:
- There is now a class unification, which is a major innnovation - a new fashion of inspecting the instances of built-in types, both written in C and in Python, as those are unified into only one hierarchy.
- The integer overflow error has been removed - whenever there's a large integer outcome to a small integer operation, a long integer is now returned.
- A new windows installer has been developed.
- The standard library now includes Barry Warsaw's mimelib package
- Fredrik Lundh's xmlrpclib has now been set as a standard library module.
- Support for large files has been added for Win32 and Win64 platforms, while it can be automatically configured on solaris and Linux OS's.

Open source license.
Allows you to write extensions and modules.
Very powerful.

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Reviewed by: Tomas O'rourke

Reviewer rating: Editor's rating 4

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Latest comments

	Guest #5397981(beginner) 3 months ago
	also some people use blender and need an older version installed, you can have multiple version of python installed for just that purpose

	turha(beginner) 8 months ago
	Real link to download v.3.0 http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.0/python-3.0.msi

	Guest #205363(beginner) Last year
	Python is a very good software. It is especially useful for modding games like Battlefield 2. It is a program for generating scripts, making scripts, or editing scripts of games. But this is mostly for games.

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