'''[http://www.python.org/%|%Python]''' is an [Open Source%|%open-source]
[scripting language%|%scripting] and general programming language, often used
for rapid application development.  


** Attributes **

   current version:   3.3.2 

   contact:   g u i d o at C N R I dot R e s t o n dot V A dot U S (Guido van Rossum)

   contact:   f r e d r i k dot l u n d h at i m a g e dot c o m b i t e c h dot s e (Fredrik Lundh)



** See Also **

   [http://www.python.org/about/%|%about Python]:   

   [http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/101390/Python?nlid=APP%|%QuickStudy: Python] ,Russel Kay ,2005-05-02:   

   [http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonBooks%|%Python Books]:   

   [IDLE]:   

   [Tkinter]:   

   [Tcl Equivalents of Python Modules]:   

   [http://ironpython.codeplex.com/%|%IronPython]:   an implementation of Python in [.NET]

   news:comp.lang.python:   a [USENET] interface to the Python mailing list

   [Comparing Tcl with Python]:   

   [Accessing Tcl and Python from one another]:   

   [Tcl vs Perl vs Python]:   

   [Playing Python]:   

   [http://avc.inrim.it/%|%AVC — Application View Controller]:   a multiplatform, fully automatic, live connection among graphical interface widgets and application variables for the Python language.

   [http://www.phaseit.net/claird/comp.lang.python/python.html%|%Cameron Laird's personal notes on Python] ,by [CL%|%Cameron Laird]:   

   [http://effbot.org/tkinterbook/%|%An Introduction to Tkinter (Work in Progress)]:   last updated in 2005.

   [http://web.archive.org/web/20110606080918/http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-qt/?ca=dgr-linuxw02QTPyQT%|%Qt and PyQt] ,Boudewijn Rempt and David Mertz ,2003-02-11:   alternative to [Tkinter]

   [https://web.archive.org/web/20080607015636/http://tcltk.gtcs.com/articles/BASIC_today/%|%BASIC Comuter Use Today] ,by [Bruce Gingery] (b g i n g e r y at g t c s dot c o m:   an article that compares Tcl/Tk, Perl/Tk, and Python/Tk to early 1980's BASIC using a simple example

   [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fms27/ipc7/%|%7th International Python Conference ,Trip report] (alternative: [https://web.archive.org/web/20050308151610/http://www-lce.eng.cam.ac.uk/~fms27/ipc7/]) , by [Frank Stajano] []:   in which Frank coins the the Pytho logo, "batteries included"

   [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fms27/ipc7/tr-1998-9.html%|%Implementing the SMS server, or why I switched from Tcl to Python] ,[Frank Stajano]:   "[incr Tcl] offers a more complete and much-cleaner object-oriented support than Python".  Too bad Frank didn't stick around for [TclOO]!  "I prefer Python because its standard library is a gold mine."

   [http://www.python.org/topics/yisl2002.html%|%The Year In Scripting Languages Lua/Perl/Python/Ruby/Tcl] ,Mitchell Charity ,2003-01:   an historically-interesting summary of scripting language developments in 2002.

   [http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/101372/Sidebar_Zope_Spurs_Python_Growth?nlid=APP%|%Sidebar: Zope Spurs Python growth] ,Russel Kay ,2005-05-02:   The popularity of Zope (Z Object Publishing Environment), an open-source Web application server and portal tool kit written in Python, has increased interest in the programming language.

   [An empirical comparison of C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Ress, and Tcl, by Lutz Prechelt ,2000-03-10]:   



** Tools **

   [critlib]'s Typcl:   an extension to use Tcl *from* Python.  It doesn't really require CriTcl and could have been done in standard C.

   [Elmer]:   [Elmer] allows developers to write code in Python and execute it in Tcl.  The resulting Tcl interface to the Python code generated by [Elmer] is transparent to the Tcl user... Python calls appear as Tcl calls ( "foo( 1, "a" )" in Python appears as "foo 1 a" in Tcl, for example) and Python and Tcl data types are automatically mapped (Tcl lists are converted to Python lists, Python dictionaries are returned as Tcl associative arrays, etc.). [Elmer] also supports Python's "freeze" module, allowing a Python developer to deliver a single library consisting of several Python files "frozen" in to the Tcl application... no need to set PYTHONPATH or have Python source files accompanying the Tcl application.




** Description **

Python includes a standard facility for object-oriented programming. 

[Tcl] is bundled into Python in order to make [Tk] available as the Python
module, '''Tkinter'''.  Beginning at version v1.5.2, includes [IDLE], an integrated development
environment for Python that requires [Tkinter].  Python 2.4 not only supports
[Tk] on [Unix], but Tk on Windows and [Macintosh] platforms as well.

[ActiveState] provides [http://www.activestate.com/activepython%|%Active
Python] binary downloads for [Linux], [Solaris] and [Windows].

[http://code.enthought.com/enthon%|%Python, Enthought Edition], now [https://www.enthought.com/products/canopy/%|%Enthought Canopy], provides Python+packages bundle.


** Misc **


[AMG]: Does anyone have [Tcl] code to read [Python] pickle
[http://docs.python.org/library/pickle.html] data?  Tcl pickle, heh.  Maybe
someday I might develop it, if no one else has already done so.



** Lost **

The following resources have been lost in the fogs of time


   [http://www.morrisland.com/~mitchell/]:   A paper on embedding Tcl, Perl or Python can be found at 





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