What is Python?!

[bruno modulix]

Roy Smith wrote:
> Robert Wierschke <wierob at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>>	a scripting language or a "normal" language like C++ etc.
> 
> 
> It is difficult to define exactly what a "scripting language" is and isn't, 

You can tell buy the most common use. bash is a scripting language,
javascript is a scripting language, perl is a scripting language, php is
a scripting language, Python is *not* a scripting language !-)

> but I think most people would classify it as a scripting language.

It can be used for scripting too, yes.


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bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'onurb at xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"