Cope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:7ab5b781-3c6c- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> please tell me what is python.This group is so crowded. > I see nobody has chosen to answer your question seriously. I'll give you an answer, but it is probably not to the question you are asking, either. Python is not one thing. Python is the name of a computer language, which you can determine easily through Google or Wikipedia or other means. That's what comp(uter).lang(uage).python is here for, nominally. Python is also a package of programs that implement the language and create a Python runtime environment. The most common implementation is of a virtual machine that runs Python bytecodes, though other variations run Java or .NET bytecodes. And Python is also a set of packages that provide utilities and features that allow users of the packages to do useful things on their computers without unnecessary fuss and bother. Some of these utilities come with a basic Python installation (code name: "batteries included"), while others are available elsewhere, often from the Python Package Index (codename: "cheese shop"), but from other sources as well. Some people conflate these meanings of "Python", which can lead to confusion at times. Much of the crowdedness of the group has to do with discussion related to the batteries-included features and to the other packages written to run in the Python environment. Hope that helps. -- rzed -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list