Jochen Schulz wrote:
abhishek goswami:
Can anyone Guide me that Python is Oject oriented programming language
or Script language
In my opinion, Python is both. But an "objective" answer would require
you to define what you means by these terms.
If, by "object-oriented" you mean "everything has to be put into
classes", then Python is not object-oriented.
That depends on what you mean by 'put into classes' (and 'everything').
If you mean 'be an instance of a class', which I think is the most
natural reading, then Python *is* object-oriented and, if I understand
what I have read correctly (so that ints are just (unboxed) ints and not
members of an int class), Java *is not*!
If you mean 'be an attribute of a class' (which to me is not 'in') or
textually located within a class statement, then I doubt an language
qualifies. It is impossible for every class statement to lie within a
class statement and I wonder whether any language requires all classes
to be attributes of some class (as opposed to subclasses or instances).
However, if 'everything' means 'everything but classes', then, as I
understand, Java and some others qualify.
If fact, if one views modules as classes that cannot be instanced or as
classes with one instance, themselves, then Python also qualifies.
Python also qualifies if you mean 'be in some attribute of a class' and
view modules as classes. *All* modules are values of sys.modules,
including builtins, __main__, and sys itself.
> If, by "scripting
language" you mean Python is an error-prone toy language, unsuitable for
large, serious projects, then Python is not a scripting language either.
On the other hand, CPython is designed to be extended by and thereby
script code written in C and C-wrapped Fortran. This is a big part of
why it uses reference-counting for garbage collection. It also has
functions for running other processes and interacting with other processes.
Terry Jan Reedy
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