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Python Setup and Usage

Release 3.2.3

Guido van Rossum Fred L. Drake, Jr., editor

May 14, 2012

Python Software Foundation Email: [email protected]

CONTENTS

Command line and environment 1.1 Command line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 Environment variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using Python on Unix platforms 2.1 Getting and installing the latest version of Python 2.2 Building Python . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3 Python-related paths and les . . . . . . . . . . 2.4 Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.5 Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using Python on Windows 3.1 Installing Python . . . . . . . . 3.2 Alternative bundles . . . . . . . 3.3 Conguring Python . . . . . . 3.4 Additional modules . . . . . . 3.5 Compiling Python on Windows 3.6 Other resources . . . . . . . . .

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Using Python on a Macintosh 4.1 Getting and Installing MacPython . . . . . . 4.2 The IDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3 Installing Additional Python Packages . . . . 4.4 GUI Programming on the Mac . . . . . . . . 4.5 Distributing Python Applications on the Mac 4.6 Application Scripting . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.7 Other Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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A Glossary B About these documents B.1 Contributors to the Python Documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C History and License C.1 History of the software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C.2 Terms and conditions for accessing or otherwise using Python . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C.3 Licenses and Acknowledgements for Incorporated Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . D Copyright Index

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This part of the documentation is devoted to general information on the setup of the Python environment on different platform, the invocation of the interpreter and things that make working with Python easier.

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COMMAND LINE AND ENVIRONMENT

The CPython interpreter scans the command line and the environment for various settings. CPython implementation detail: Other implementations command line schemes may differ. See implementations for further resources.

1.1 Command line

When invoking Python, you may specify any of these options: python [-bBdEhiORqsSuvVWx?] [-c command | -m module-name | script | - ] [args] The most common use case is, of course, a simple invocation of a script: python myscript.py

1.1.1 Interface options

The interpreter interface resembles that of the UNIX shell, but provides some additional methods of invocation: When called with standard input connected to a tty device, it prompts for commands and executes them until an EOF (an end-of-le character, you can produce that with Ctrl-D on UNIX or Ctrl-Z, Enter on Windows) is read. When called with a le name argument or with a le as standard input, it reads and executes a script from that le. When called with a directory name argument, it reads and executes an appropriately named script from that directory. When called with -c command, it executes the Python statement(s) given as command. Here command may contain multiple statements separated by newlines. Leading whitespace is signicant in Python statements! When called with -m module-name, the given module is located on the Python module path and executed as a script. In non-interactive mode, the entire input is parsed before it is executed. An interface option terminates the list of options consumed by the interpreter, all consecutive arguments will end up in sys.argv note that the rst element, subscript zero (sys.argv[0]), is a string reecting the programs source. -c <command> Execute the Python code in command. command can be one or more statements separated by newlines, with signicant leading whitespace as in normal module code. If this option is given, the rst element of sys.argv will be "-c" and the current directory will be added to the start of sys.path (allowing modules in that directory to be imported as top level modules).

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-m <module-name> Search sys.path for the named module and execute its contents as the __main__ module. Since the argument is a module name, you must not give a le extension (.py). The module-name should be a valid Python module name, but the implementation may not always enforce this (e.g. it may allow you to use a name that includes a hyphen). Package names are also permitted. When a package name is supplied instead of a normal module, the interpreter will execute <pkg>.__main__ as the main module. This behaviour is deliberately similar to the handling of directories and ziples that are passed to the interpreter as the script argument. Note: This option cannot be used with built-in modules and extension modules written in C, since they do not have Python module les. However, it can still be used for precompiled modules, even if the original source le is not available. If this option is given, the rst element of sys.argv will be the full path to the module le (while the module le is being located, the rst element will be set to "-m"). As with the -c option, the current directory will be added to the start of sys.path. Many standard library modules contain code that is invoked on their execution as a script. An example is the timeit module: python -mtimeit -s setup here benchmarked code here python -mtimeit -h # for details See Also: runpy.run_module() Equivalent functionality directly available to Python code PEP 338 Executing modules as scripts Changed in version 3.1: Supply the package name to run a __main__ submodule. Read commands from standard input (sys.stdin). If standard input is a terminal, -i is implied. If this option is given, the rst element of sys.argv will be "-" and the current directory will be added to the start of sys.path. <script> Execute the Python code contained in script, which must be a lesystem path (absolute or relative) referring to either a Python le, a directory containing a __main__.py le, or a ziple containing a __main__.py le. If this option is given, the rst element of sys.argv will be the script name as given on the command line. If the script name refers directly to a Python le, the directory containing that le is added to the start of sys.path, and the le is executed as the __main__ module. If the script name refers to a directory or ziple, the script name is added to the start of sys.path and the __main__.py le in that location is executed as the __main__ module. If no interface option is given, -i is implied, sys.argv[0] is an empty string ("") and the current directory will be added to the start of sys.path. See Also: tut-invoking

1.1.2 Generic options

-? -h

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-help Print a short description of all command line options. -V -version Print the Python version number and exit. Example output could be: Python 3.0

1.1.3 Miscellaneous options

-b Issue a warning when comparing str and bytes. Issue an error when the option is given twice (-bb). -B If given, Python wont try to write .pyc or .pyo les on the import of source modules. See also PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE. -d Turn on parser debugging output (for wizards only, depending on compilation options). PYTHONDEBUG. -E Ignore all PYTHON* environment variables, e.g. PYTHONPATH and PYTHONHOME, that might be set. -i When a script is passed as rst argument or the -c option is used, enter interactive mode after executing the script or the command, even when sys.stdin does not appear to be a terminal. The PYTHONSTARTUP le is not read. This can be useful to inspect global variables or a stack trace when a script raises an exception. See also PYTHONINSPECT. -O Turn on basic optimizations. This changes the lename extension for compiled (bytecode) les from .pyc to .pyo. See also PYTHONOPTIMIZE. -OO Discard docstrings in addition to the -O optimizations. -q Dont display the copyright and version messages even in interactive mode. New in version 3.2. -R Turn on hash randomization, so that the __hash__() values of str, bytes and datetime objects are salted with an unpredictable random value. Although they remain constant within an individual Python process, they are not predictable between repeated invocations of Python. This is intended to provide protection against a denial-of-service caused by carefully-chosen inputs that exploit the worst case performance of a dict construction, O(n^2) complexity. See http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html for details. Changing hash values affects the order in which keys are retrieved from a dict. Although Python has never made guarantees about this ordering (and it typically varies between 32-bit and 64-bit builds), enough realworld code implicitly relies on this non-guaranteed behavior that the randomization is disabled by default. See also PYTHONHASHSEED. New in version 3.2.3. -s Dont add the user site-packages directory to sys.path. See also

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See Also: PEP 370 Per user site-packages directory -S Disable the import of the module site and the site-dependent manipulations of sys.path that it entails. -u Force the binary layer of the stdin, stdout and stderr streams (which is available as their buffer attribute) to be unbuffered. The text I/O layer will still be line-buffered if writing to the console, or block-buffered if redirected to a non-interactive le. See also PYTHONUNBUFFERED. -v Print a message each time a module is initialized, showing the place (lename or built-in module) from which it is loaded. When given twice (-vv), print a message for each le that is checked for when searching for a module. Also provides information on module cleanup at exit. See also PYTHONVERBOSE. -W arg Warning control. Pythons warning machinery by default prints warning messages to sys.stderr. A typical warning message has the following form: file:line: category: message By default, each warning is printed once for each source line where it occurs. This option controls how often warnings are printed. Multiple -W options may be given; when a warning matches more than one option, the action for the last matching option is performed. Invalid -W options are ignored (though, a warning message is printed about invalid options when the rst warning is issued). Warnings can also be controlled from within a Python program using the warnings module. The simplest form of argument is one of the following action strings (or a unique abbreviation): ignore Ignore all warnings. default Explicitly request the default behavior (printing each warning once per source line). all Print a warning each time it occurs (this may generate many messages if a warning is triggered repeatedly for the same source line, such as inside a loop). module Print each warning only the rst time it occurs in each module. once Print each warning only the rst time it occurs in the program. error Raise an exception instead of printing a warning message. The full form of argument is: action:message:category:module:line Here, action is as explained above but only applies to messages that match the remaining elds. Empty elds match all values; trailing empty elds may be omitted. The message eld matches the start of the warning message printed; this match is case-insensitive. The category eld matches the warning category. This must be a class name; the match tests whether the actual warning category of the message is a subclass of the specied warning category. The full class name must be given. The module eld matches the (fullyqualied) module name; this match is case-sensitive. The line eld matches the line number, where zero matches all line numbers and is thus equivalent to an omitted line number. See Also: warnings the warnings module PEP 230 Warning framework PYTHONWARNINGS

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-x Skip the rst line of the source, allowing use of non-Unix forms of #!cmd. This is intended for a DOS specic hack only. Note: The line numbers in error messages will be off by one. -X Reserved for various implementation-specic options. CPython currently denes none of them, but allows to pass arbitrary values and retrieve them through the sys._xoptions dictionary. Changed in version 3.2: It is now allowed to pass -X with CPython.

1.1.4 Options you shouldnt use

-J Reserved for use by Jython.

1.2 Environment variables

These environment variables inuence Pythons behavior. PYTHONHOME Change the location of the standard Python libraries. By default, the libraries are searched in prefix/lib/pythonversion and exec_prefix/lib/pythonversion, where prefix and exec_prefix are installation-dependent directories, both defaulting to /usr/local. When PYTHONHOME is set to a single directory, its value replaces both prefix and exec_prefix. To specify different values for these, set PYTHONHOME to prefix:exec_prefix. PYTHONPATH Augment the default search path for module les. The format is the same as the shells PATH: one or more directory pathnames separated by os.pathsep (e.g. colons on Unix or semicolons on Windows). Non-existent directories are silently ignored. In addition to normal directories, individual PYTHONPATH entries may refer to ziples containing pure Python modules (in either source or compiled form). Extension modules cannot be imported from ziples. The default search path is installation dependent, but generally begins with prefix/lib/pythonversion (see PYTHONHOME above). It is always appended to PYTHONPATH. An additional directory will be inserted in the search path in front of PYTHONPATH as described above under Interface options. The search path can be manipulated from within a Python program as the variable sys.path. PYTHONSTARTUP If this is the name of a readable le, the Python commands in that le are executed before the rst prompt is displayed in interactive mode. The le is executed in the same namespace where interactive commands are executed so that objects dened or imported in it can be used without qualication in the interactive session. You can also change the prompts sys.ps1 and sys.ps2 in this le. PYTHONY2K Set this to a non-empty string to cause the time module to require dates specied as strings to include 4-digit years, otherwise 2-digit years are converted based on rules described in the time module documentation. PYTHONOPTIMIZE If this is set to a non-empty string it is equivalent to specifying the -O option. If set to an integer, it is equivalent to specifying -O multiple times.

1.2. Environment variables

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PYTHONDEBUG If this is set to a non-empty string it is equivalent to specifying the -d option. If set to an integer, it is equivalent to specifying -d multiple times. PYTHONINSPECT If this is set to a non-empty string it is equivalent to specifying the -i option. This variable can also be modied by Python code using os.environ to force inspect mode on program termination. PYTHONUNBUFFERED If this is set to a non-empty string it is equivalent to specifying the -u option. PYTHONVERBOSE If this is set to a non-empty string it is equivalent to specifying the -v option. If set to an integer, it is equivalent to specifying -v multiple times. PYTHONCASEOK If this is set, Python ignores case in import statements. This only works on Windows, OS X, and OS/2. PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE If this is set, Python wont try to write .pyc or .pyo les on the import of source modules. This is equivalent to specifying the -B option. PYTHONHASHSEED If this variable is set to random, the effect is the same as specifying the -R option: a random value is used to seed the hashes of str, bytes and datetime objects. If PYTHONHASHSEED is set to an integer value, it is used as a xed seed for generating the hash() of the types covered by the hash randomization. Its purpose is to allow repeatable hashing, such as for selftests for the interpreter itself, or to allow a cluster of python processes to share hash values. The integer must be a decimal number in the range [0,4294967295]. Specifying the value 0 will lead to the same hash values as when hash randomization is disabled. New in version 3.2.3. PYTHONIOENCODING If this is set before running the interpreter, it overrides the encoding used for stdin/stdout/stderr, in the syntax encodingname:errorhandler. The :errorhandler part is optional and has the same meaning as in str.encode(). For stderr, the :errorhandler part is ignored; the handler will always be backslashreplace. PYTHONNOUSERSITE If this is set, Python wont add the user site-packages directory to sys.path. See Also: PEP 370 Per user site-packages directory PYTHONUSERBASE Denes the user base directory, which is used to compute the path of the user site-packages directory and Distutils installation paths for python setup.py install --user. See Also: PEP 370 Per user site-packages directory PYTHONEXECUTABLE If this environment variable is set, sys.argv[0] will be set to its value instead of the value got through the C runtime. Only works on Mac OS X. PYTHONWARNINGS This is equivalent to the -W option. If set to a comma separated string, it is equivalent to specifying -W multiple times.

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1.2.1 Debug-mode variables

Setting these variables only has an effect in a debug build of Python, that is, if Python was congured with the --with-pydebug build option. PYTHONTHREADDEBUG If set, Python will print threading debug info. PYTHONDUMPREFS If set, Python will dump objects and reference counts still alive after shutting down the interpreter. PYTHONMALLOCSTATS If set, Python will print memory allocation statistics every time a new object arena is created, and on shutdown.

1.2. Environment variables

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CHAPTER

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USING PYTHON ON UNIX PLATFORMS

2.1 Getting and installing the latest version of Python
2.1.1 On Linux
Python comes preinstalled on most Linux distributions, and is available as a package on all others. However there are certain features you might want to use that are not available on your distros package. You can easily compile the latest version of Python from source. In the event that Python doesnt come preinstalled and isnt in the repositories as well, you can easily make packages for your own distro. Have a look at the following links: See Also: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/rst.en.html for Debian users http://linuxmaa.com/pub/linux/suse-linux-internals/chapter35.html for OpenSuse users http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_Guide/ch-creating-rpms.html for Fedora users http://www.slackbook.org/html/package-management-making-packages.html for Slackware users

2.1.2 On FreeBSD and OpenBSD

FreeBSD users, to add the package use: pkg_add -r python OpenBSD users use:

pkg_add ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.2/packages/<insert your architecture her For example i386 users get the 2.5.1 version of Python using: pkg_add ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.2/packages/i386/python-2.5.1p2.tgz

2.1.3 On OpenSolaris
To install the newest Python versions on OpenSolaris, install blastwave and type pkg_get -i python at the prompt.

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2.2 Building Python

If you want to compile CPython yourself, rst thing you should do is get the source. You can download either the latest releases source or just grab a fresh clone. (If you want to contribute patches, you will need a clone.) The build process consists in the usual ./configure make make install invocations. Conguration options and caveats for specic Unix platforms are extensively documented in the README le in the root of the Python source tree. Warning: make install can overwrite or masquerade the python3 binary. make altinstall is therefore recommended instead of make install since it only installs exec_prefix/bin/pythonversion.

2.3 Python-related paths and les

These are subject to difference depending on local installation conventions; prefix (${prefix}) and exec_prefix (${exec_prefix}) are installation-dependent and should be interpreted as for GNU software; they may be the same. For example, on most Linux systems, the default for both is /usr. File/directory Meaning exec_prefix/bin/python3 Recommended location of the interpreter. prefix/lib/pythonversion, Recommended locations of the directories containing the exec_prefix/lib/pythonversion standard modules. prefix/include/pythonversion, Recommended locations of the directories containing the exec_prefix/include/pythonversion les needed for developing Python extensions and include embedding the interpreter.

2.4 Miscellaneous
To easily use Python scripts on Unix, you need to make them executable, e.g. with $ chmod +x script and put an appropriate Shebang line at the top of the script. A good choice is usually #!/usr/bin/env python3 which searches for the Python interpreter in the whole PATH. However, some Unices may not have the env command, so you may need to hardcode /usr/bin/python3 as the interpreter path. To use shell commands in your Python scripts, look at the subprocess module.

2.5 Editors
Vim and Emacs are excellent editors which support Python very well. For more information on how to code in Python in these editors, look at: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=790 http://sourceforge.net/projects/python-mode

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Geany is an excellent IDE with support for a lot of languages. For more information, read: http://geany.uvena.de/ Komodo edit is another extremely good IDE. It also has support for a lot of languages. For more information, read: http://www.activestate.com/store/productdetail.aspx?prdGuid=20f4ed15-6684-4118-a78b-d37ff4058c5f

2.5. Editors

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USING PYTHON ON WINDOWS

This document aims to give an overview of Windows-specic behaviour you should know about when using Python on Microsoft Windows.

3.1 Installing Python

Unlike most Unix systems and services, Windows does not require Python natively and thus does not pre-install a version of Python. However, the CPython team has compiled Windows installers (MSI packages) with every release for many years. With ongoing development of Python, some platforms that used to be supported earlier are no longer supported (due to the lack of users or developers). Check PEP 11 for details on all unsupported platforms. Up to 2.5, Python was still compatible with Windows 95, 98 and ME (but already raised a deprecation warning on installation). For Python 2.6 (and all following releases), this support was dropped and new releases are just expected to work on the Windows NT family. Windows CE is still supported. The Cygwin installer offers to install the Python interpreter as well; it is located under Interpreters. (cf. Cygwin package source, Maintainer releases) See Python for Windows (and DOS) for detailed information about platforms with precompiled installers. See Also: Python on XP 7 Minutes to Hello World! by Richard Dooling, 2006 Installing on Windows in Dive into Python: Python from novice to pro by Mark Pilgrim, 2004, ISBN 159059-356-1 For Windows users in Installing Python in A Byte of Python by Swaroop C H, 2003

3.2 Alternative bundles

Besides the standard CPython distribution, there are modied packages including additional functionality. The following is a list of popular versions and their key features: ActivePython Installer with multi-platform compatibility, documentation, PyWin32 Enthought Python Distribution Popular modules (such as PyWin32) with their respective documentation, tool suite for building extensible Python applications Notice that these packages are likely to install older versions of Python.

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3.3 Conguring Python

In order to run Python awlessly, you might have to change certain environment settings in Windows.

3.3.1 Excursus: Setting environment variables

Windows has a built-in dialog for changing environment variables (following guide applies to XP classical view): Right-click the icon for your machine (usually located on your Desktop and called My Computer) and choose Properties there. Then, open the Advanced tab and click the Environment Variables button. In short, your path is: My Computer Properties Advanced Environment Variables In this dialog, you can add or modify User and System variables. To change System variables, you need nonrestricted access to your machine (i.e. Administrator rights). Another way of adding variables to your environment is using the set command: set PYTHONPATH=%PYTHONPATH%;C:\My_python_lib To make this setting permanent, you could add the corresponding command line to your autoexec.bat. mscong is a graphical interface to this le. Viewing environment variables can also be done more straight-forward: The command prompt will expand strings wrapped into percent signs automatically: echo %PATH% Consult set /? for details on this behaviour. See Also: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/100843 Environment variables in Windows NT http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310519 How To Manage Environment Variables in Windows XP http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/~louis/software/faq/q1.html Setting Environment variables, Louis J. Farrugia

3.3.2 Finding the Python executable

Besides using the automatically created start menu entry for the Python interpreter, you might want to start Python in the DOS prompt. To make this work, you need to set your %PATH% environment variable to include the directory of your Python distribution, delimited by a semicolon from other entries. An example variable could look like this (assuming the rst two entries are Windows default): C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\Python25 Typing python on your command prompt will now re up the Python interpreter. Thus, you can also execute your scripts with command line options, see Command line documentation.

3.3.3 Finding modules

Python usually stores its library (and thereby your site-packages folder) in the installation directory. So, if you had installed Python to C:\Python\, the default library would reside in C:\Python\Lib\ and third-party modules should be stored in C:\Python\Lib\site-packages\. This is how sys.path is populated on Windows: An empty entry is added at the start, which corresponds to the current directory. If the environment variable PYTHONPATH exists, as described in Environment variables, its entries are added next. Note that on Windows, paths in this variable must be separated by semicolons, to distinguish them from the colon used in drive identiers (C:\ etc.). 16 Chapter 3. Using Python on Windows

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Additional application paths can be added in the registry as subkeys of \SOFTWARE\Python\PythonCore\version\PythonPath under both the HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hives. Subkeys which have semicolon-delimited path strings as their default value will cause each path to be added to sys.path. (Note that all known installers only use HKLM, so HKCU is typically empty.) If the environment variable PYTHONHOME is set, it is assumed as Python Home. Otherwise, the path of the main Python executable is used to locate a landmark le (Lib\os.py) to deduce the Python Home. If a Python home is found, the relevant sub-directories added to sys.path (Lib, plat-win, etc) are based on that folder. Otherwise, the core Python path is constructed from the PythonPath stored in the registry. If the Python Home cannot be located, no PYTHONPATH is specied in the environment, and no registry entries can be found, a default path with relative entries is used (e.g. .\Lib;.\plat-win, etc). The end result of all this is: When running python.exe, or any other .exe in the main Python directory (either an installed version, or directly from the PCbuild directory), the core path is deduced, and the core paths in the registry are ignored. Other application paths in the registry are always read. When Python is hosted in another .exe (different directory, embedded via COM, etc), the Python Home will not be deduced, so the core path from the registry is used. Other application paths in the registry are always read. If Python cant nd its home and there is no registry (eg, frozen .exe, some very strange installation setup) you get a path with some default, but relative, paths.

3.3.4 Executing scripts

Python scripts (les with the extension .py) will be executed by python.exe by default. This executable opens a terminal, which stays open even if the program uses a GUI. If you do not want this to happen, use the extension .pyw which will cause the script to be executed by pythonw.exe by default (both executables are located in the top-level of your Python installation directory). This suppresses the terminal window on startup. You can also make all .py scripts execute with pythonw.exe, setting this through the usual facilities, for example (might require administrative rights): 1. Launch a command prompt. 2. Associate the correct le group with .py scripts: assoc .py=Python.File 3. Redirect all Python les to the new executable: ftype Python.File=C:\Path\to\pythonw.exe "%1" %*

3.4 Additional modules

Even though Python aims to be portable among all platforms, there are features that are unique to Windows. A couple of modules, both in the standard library and external, and snippets exist to use these features. The Windows-specic standard modules are documented in mswin-specic-services.

3.4.1 PyWin32
The PyWin32 module by Mark Hammond is a collection of modules for advanced Windows-specic support. This includes utilities for: Component Object Model (COM)

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Win32 API calls Registry Event log Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) user interfaces PythonWin is a sample MFC application shipped with PyWin32. It is an embeddable IDE with a built-in debugger. See Also: Win32 How Do I...? by Tim Golden Python and COM by David and Paul Boddie

3.4.2 Py2exe
Py2exe is a distutils extension (see extending-distutils) which wraps Python scripts into executable Windows programs (*.exe les). When you have done this, you can distribute your application without requiring your users to install Python.

3.4.3 WConio
Since Pythons advanced terminal handling layer, curses, is restricted to Unix-like systems, there is a library exclusive to Windows as well: Windows Console I/O for Python. WConio is a wrapper for Turbo-Cs CONIO.H, used to create text user interfaces.

3.5 Compiling Python on Windows

If you want to compile CPython yourself, rst thing you should do is get the source. You can download either the latest releases source or just grab a fresh checkout. For Microsoft Visual C++, which is the compiler with which ofcial Python releases are built, the source tree contains solutions/project les. View the readme.txt in their respective directories: Directory PC/VC6/ PC/VS7.1/ PC/VS8.0/ PCbuild/ MSVC version 6.0 7.1 8.0 9.0 Visual Studio version 97 2003 2005 2008

Note that not all of these build directories are fully supported. Read the release notes to see which compiler version the ofcial releases for your version are built with. Check PC/readme.txt for general information on the build process. For extension modules, consult building-on-windows. See Also: Python + Windows + distutils + SWIG + gcc MinGW or Creating Python extensions in C/C++ with SWIG and compiling them with MinGW gcc under Windows or Installing Python extension with distutils and without Microsoft Visual C++ by Sbastien Sauvage, 2003 MingW Python extensions by Trent Apted et al, 2007

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3.6 Other resources

See Also: Python Programming On Win32 Help for Windows Programmers by Mark Hammond and Andy Robinson, OReilly Media, 2000, ISBN 1-56592-621-8 A Python for Windows Tutorial by Amanda Birmingham, 2004

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Author Bob Savage <[email protected]> Python on a Macintosh running Mac OS X is in principle very similar to Python on any other Unix platform, but there are a number of additional features such as the IDE and the Package Manager that are worth pointing out.

4.1 Getting and Installing MacPython

Mac OS X 10.5 comes with Python 2.5.1 pre-installed by Apple. If you wish, you are invited to install the most recent version of Python from the Python website (http://www.python.org). A current universal binary build of Python, which runs natively on the Macs new Intel and legacy PPC CPUs, is available there. What you get after installing is a number of things: A MacPython 2.5 folder in your Applications folder. In here you nd IDLE, the development environment that is a standard part of ofcial Python distributions; PythonLauncher, which handles doubleclicking Python scripts from the Finder; and the Build Applet tool, which allows you to package Python scripts as standalone applications on your system. A framework /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework, which includes the Python executable and libraries. The installer adds this location to your shell path. To uninstall MacPython, you can simply remove these three things. A symlink to the Python executable is placed in /usr/local/bin/. The Apple-provided build of Python is installed in /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework and /usr/bin/python, respectively. You should never modify or delete these, as they are Apple-controlled and are used by Apple- or third-party software. Remember that if you choose to install a newer Python version from python.org, you will have two different but functional Python installations on your computer, so it will be important that your paths and usages are consistent with what you want to do. IDLE includes a help menu that allows you to access Python documentation. If you are completely new to Python you should start reading the tutorial introduction in that document. If you are familiar with Python on other Unix platforms you should read the section on running Python scripts from the Unix shell.

4.1.1 How to run a Python script

Your best way to get started with Python on Mac OS X is through the IDLE integrated development environment, see section The IDE and use the Help menu when the IDE is running. If you want to run Python scripts from the Terminal window command line or from the Finder you rst need an editor to create your script. Mac OS X comes with a number of standard Unix command line editors, vim and emacs among them. If you want a more Mac-like editor, BBEdit or TextWrangler from Bare Bones Software (see http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.shtml) are good choices, as is TextMate (see http://macromates.com/). Other editors include Gvim (http://macvim.org) and Aquamacs (http://aquamacs.org/).

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To run your script from the Terminal window you must make sure that /usr/local/bin is in your shell search path. To run your script from the Finder you have two options: Drag it to PythonLauncher Select PythonLauncher as the default application to open your script (or any .py script) through the nder Info window and double-click it. PythonLauncher has various preferences to control how your script is launched. Option-dragging allows you to change these for one invocation, or use its Preferences menu to change things globally.

4.1.2 Running scripts with a GUI

With older versions of Python, there is one Mac OS X quirk that you need to be aware of: programs that talk to the Aqua window manager (in other words, anything that has a GUI) need to be run in a special way. Use pythonw instead of python to start such scripts. With Python 2.5, you can use either python or pythonw.

4.1.3 Conguration
Python on OS X honors all standard Unix environment variables such as PYTHONPATH, but setting these variables for programs started from the Finder is non-standard as the Finder does not read your .profile or .cshrc at startup. You need to create a le ~ /.MacOSX/environment.plist. See Apples Technical Document QA1067 for details. For more information on installation Python packages in MacPython, see section Installing Additional Python Packages.

4.2 The IDE

MacPython ships with the standard IDLE development environment. A good introduction to using IDLE can be found at http://hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu/~dyoo/python/idle_intro/index.html.

4.3 Installing Additional Python Packages

There are several methods to install additional Python packages: http://pythonmac.org/packages/ contains selected compiled packages for Python 2.5, 2.4, and 2.3. Packages can be installed via the standard Python distutils mode (python setup.py install). Many packages can also be installed via the setuptools extension.

4.4 GUI Programming on the Mac

There are several options for building GUI applications on the Mac with Python. PyObjC is a Python binding to Apples Objective-C/Cocoa framework, which is the foundation of most modern Mac development. Information on PyObjC is available from http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net. The standard Python GUI toolkit is tkinter, based on the cross-platform Tk toolkit (http://www.tcl.tk). An Aqua-native version of Tk is bundled with OS X by Apple, and the latest version can be downloaded and installed from http://www.activestate.com; it can also be built from source.

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wxPython is another popular cross-platform GUI toolkit that runs natively on Mac OS X. Packages and documentation are available from http://www.wxpython.org. PyQt is another popular cross-platform GUI toolkit that runs natively on Mac OS X. More information can be found at http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/intro.

4.5 Distributing Python Applications on the Mac

The Build Applet tool that is placed in the MacPython 2.5 folder is ne for packaging small Python scripts on your own machine to run as a standard Mac application. This tool, however, is not robust enough to distribute Python applications to other users. The standard tool for deploying standalone Python applications on the Mac is py2app. More information on installing and using py2app can be found at http://undened.org/python/#py2app.

4.6 Application Scripting

Python can also be used to script other Mac applications via Apples Open Scripting Architecture (OSA); see http://appscript.sourceforge.net. Appscript is a high-level, user-friendly Apple event bridge that allows you to control scriptable Mac OS X applications using ordinary Python scripts. Appscript makes Python a serious alternative to Apples own AppleScript language for automating your Mac. A related package, PyOSA, is an OSA language component for the Python scripting language, allowing Python code to be executed by any OSA-enabled application (Script Editor, Mail, iTunes, etc.). PyOSA makes Python a full peer to AppleScript.

4.7 Other Resources

The MacPython mailing list is an excellent support resource for Python users and developers on the Mac: http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/pythonmac-sig/ Another useful resource is the MacPython wiki: http://wiki.python.org/moin/MacPython

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>>> The default Python prompt of the interactive shell. Often seen for code examples which can be executed interactively in the interpreter. ... The default Python prompt of the interactive shell when entering code for an indented code block or within a pair of matching left and right delimiters (parentheses, square brackets or curly braces). 2to3 A tool that tries to convert Python 2.x code to Python 3.x code by handling most of the incompatibilities which can be detected by parsing the source and traversing the parse tree. 2to3 is available in the standard library as lib2to3; a standalone entry point is provided as Tools/scripts/2to3. See 2to3-reference. abstract base class Abstract base classes complement duck-typing by providing a way to dene interfaces when other techniques like hasattr() would be clumsy or subtly wrong (for example with magic methods). ABCs introduce virtual subclasses, which are classes that dont inherit from a class but are still recognized by isinstance() and issubclass(); see the abc module documentation. Python comes with many built-in ABCs for data structures (in the collections module), numbers (in the numbers module), streams (in the io module), import nders and loaders (in the importlib.abc module). You can create your own ABCs with the abc module. argument A value passed to a function or method, assigned to a named local variable in the function body. A function or method may have both positional arguments and keyword arguments in its denition. Positional and keyword arguments may be variable-length: * accepts or passes (if in the function denition or call) several positional arguments in a list, while ** does the same for keyword arguments in a dictionary. Any expression may be used within the argument list, and the evaluated value is passed to the local variable. attribute A value associated with an object which is referenced by name using dotted expressions. For example, if an object o has an attribute a it would be referenced as o.a. BDFL Benevolent Dictator For Life, a.k.a. Guido van Rossum, Pythons creator. bytecode Python source code is compiled into bytecode, the internal representation of a Python program in the CPython interpreter. The bytecode is also cached in .pyc and .pyo les so that executing the same le is faster the second time (recompilation from source to bytecode can be avoided). This intermediate language is said to run on a virtual machine that executes the machine code corresponding to each bytecode. Do note that bytecodes are not expected to work between different Python virtual machines, nor to be stable between Python releases. A list of bytecode instructions can be found in the documentation for the dis module. class A template for creating user-dened objects. Class denitions normally contain method denitions which operate on instances of the class. coercion The implicit conversion of an instance of one type to another during an operation which involves two arguments of the same type. For example, int(3.15) converts the oating point number to the integer 3, but in 3+4.5, each argument is of a different type (one int, one oat), and both must be converted to the same type before they can be added or it will raise a TypeError. Without coercion, all arguments of even compatible types would have to be normalized to the same value by the programmer, e.g., float(3)+4.5 rather than just 3+4.5.

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complex number An extension of the familiar real number system in which all numbers are expressed as a sum of a real part and an imaginary part. Imaginary numbers are real multiples of the imaginary unit (the square root of -1), often written i in mathematics or j in engineering. Python has built-in support for complex numbers, which are written with this latter notation; the imaginary part is written with a j sufx, e.g., 3+1j. To get access to complex equivalents of the math module, use cmath. Use of complex numbers is a fairly advanced mathematical feature. If youre not aware of a need for them, its almost certain you can safely ignore them. context manager An object which controls the environment seen in a with statement by dening __enter__() and __exit__() methods. See PEP 343. CPython The canonical implementation of the Python programming language, as distributed on python.org. The term CPython is used when necessary to distinguish this implementation from others such as Jython or IronPython. decorator A function returning another function, usually applied as a function transformation using the @wrapper syntax. Common examples for decorators are classmethod() and staticmethod(). The decorator syntax is merely syntactic sugar, the following two function denitions are semantically equivalent: def f(...): ... f = staticmethod(f) @staticmethod def f(...): ... The same concept exists for classes, but is less commonly used there. See the documentation for function denitions and class denitions for more about decorators. descriptor Any object which denes the methods __get__(), __set__(), or __delete__(). When a class attribute is a descriptor, its special binding behavior is triggered upon attribute lookup. Normally, using a.b to get, set or delete an attribute looks up the object named b in the class dictionary for a, but if b is a descriptor, the respective descriptor method gets called. Understanding descriptors is a key to a deep understanding of Python because they are the basis for many features including functions, methods, properties, class methods, static methods, and reference to super classes. For more information about descriptors methods, see descriptors. dictionary An associative array, where arbitrary keys are mapped to values. The keys can be any object with __hash__() and __eq__() methods. Called a hash in Perl. docstring A string literal which appears as the rst expression in a class, function or module. While ignored when the suite is executed, it is recognized by the compiler and put into the __doc__ attribute of the enclosing class, function or module. Since it is available via introspection, it is the canonical place for documentation of the object. duck-typing A programming style which does not look at an objects type to determine if it has the right interface; instead, the method or attribute is simply called or used (If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck.) By emphasizing interfaces rather than specic types, well-designed code improves its exibility by allowing polymorphic substitution. Duck-typing avoids tests using type() or isinstance(). (Note, however, that duck-typing can be complemented with abstract base classes.) Instead, it typically employs hasattr() tests or EAFP programming. EAFP Easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. This common Python coding style assumes the existence of valid keys or attributes and catches exceptions if the assumption proves false. This clean and fast style is characterized by the presence of many try and except statements. The technique contrasts with the LBYL style common to many other languages such as C. expression A piece of syntax which can be evaluated to some value. In other words, an expression is an accumulation of expression elements like literals, names, attribute access, operators or function calls which all return a value. In contrast to many other languages, not all language constructs are expressions. There

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are also statements which cannot be used as expressions, such as if. Assignments are also statements, not expressions. extension module A module written in C or C++, using Pythons C API to interact with the core and with user code. le object An object exposing a le-oriented API (with methods such as read() or write()) to an underlying resource. Depending on the way it was created, a le object can mediate access to a real on-disk le or to another other type of storage or communication device (for example standard input/output, in-memory buffers, sockets, pipes, etc.). File objects are also called le-like objects or streams. There are actually three categories of le objects: raw binary les, buffered binary les and text les. Their interfaces are dened in the io module. The canonical way to create a le object is by using the open() function. le-like object A synonym for le object. nder An object that tries to nd the loader for a module. It must implement a method named find_module(). See PEP 302 for details and importlib.abc.Finder for an abstract base class. oor division Mathematical division that rounds down to nearest integer. The oor division operator is //. For example, the expression 11 // 4 evaluates to 2 in contrast to the 2.75 returned by oat true division. Note that (-11) // 4 is -3 because that is -2.75 rounded downward. See PEP 238. function A series of statements which returns some value to a caller. It can also be passed zero or more arguments which may be used in the execution of the body. See also argument and method. __future__ A pseudo-module which programmers can use to enable new language features which are not compatible with the current interpreter. By importing the __future__ module and evaluating its variables, you can see when a new feature was rst added to the language and when it becomes the default: >>> import __future__ >>> __future__.division _Feature((2, 2, 0, alpha, 2), (3, 0, 0, alpha, 0), 8192) garbage collection The process of freeing memory when it is not used anymore. Python performs garbage collection via reference counting and a cyclic garbage collector that is able to detect and break reference cycles. generator A function which returns an iterator. It looks like a normal function except that it contains yield statements for producing a series a values usable in a for-loop or that can be retrieved one at a time with the next() function. Each yield temporarily suspends processing, remembering the location execution state (including local variables and pending try-statements). When the generator resumes, it picks-up where it left-off (in contrast to functions which start fresh on every invocation). generator expression An expression that returns an iterator. It looks like a normal expression followed by a for expression dening a loop variable, range, and an optional if expression. The combined expression generates values for an enclosing function: >>> sum(i*i for i in range(10)) 285 GIL See global interpreter lock. global interpreter lock The mechanism used by the CPython interpreter to assure that only one thread executes Python bytecode at a time. This simplies the CPython implementation by making the object model (including critical built-in types such as dict) implicitly safe against concurrent access. Locking the entire interpreter makes it easier for the interpreter to be multi-threaded, at the expense of much of the parallelism afforded by multi-processor machines. However, some extension modules, either standard or third-party, are designed so as to release the GIL when doing computationally-intensive tasks such as compression or hashing. Also, the GIL is always released when doing I/O. # sum of squares 0, 1, 4, ... 81

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Past efforts to create a free-threaded interpreter (one which locks shared data at a much ner granularity) have not been successful because performance suffered in the common single-processor case. It is believed that overcoming this performance issue would make the implementation much more complicated and therefore costlier to maintain. hashable An object is hashable if it has a hash value which never changes during its lifetime (it needs a __hash__() method), and can be compared to other objects (it needs an __eq__() method). Hashable objects which compare equal must have the same hash value. Hashability makes an object usable as a dictionary key and a set member, because these data structures use the hash value internally. All of Pythons immutable built-in objects are hashable, while no mutable containers (such as lists or dictionaries) are. Objects which are instances of user-dened classes are hashable by default; they all compare unequal, and their hash value is their id(). IDLE An Integrated Development Environment for Python. IDLE is a basic editor and interpreter environment which ships with the standard distribution of Python. immutable An object with a xed value. Immutable objects include numbers, strings and tuples. Such an object cannot be altered. A new object has to be created if a different value has to be stored. They play an important role in places where a constant hash value is needed, for example as a key in a dictionary. importer An object that both nds and loads a module; both a nder and loader object. interactive Python has an interactive interpreter which means you can enter statements and expressions at the interpreter prompt, immediately execute them and see their results. Just launch python with no arguments (possibly by selecting it from your computers main menu). It is a very powerful way to test out new ideas or inspect modules and packages (remember help(x)). interpreted Python is an interpreted language, as opposed to a compiled one, though the distinction can be blurry because of the presence of the bytecode compiler. This means that source les can be run directly without explicitly creating an executable which is then run. Interpreted languages typically have a shorter development/debug cycle than compiled ones, though their programs generally also run more slowly. See also interactive. iterable An object capable of returning its members one at a time. Examples of iterables include all sequence types (such as list, str, and tuple) and some non-sequence types like dict and file and objects of any classes you dene with an __iter__() or __getitem__() method. Iterables can be used in a for loop and in many other places where a sequence is needed (zip(), map(), ...). When an iterable object is passed as an argument to the built-in function iter(), it returns an iterator for the object. This iterator is good for one pass over the set of values. When using iterables, it is usually not necessary to call iter() or deal with iterator objects yourself. The for statement does that automatically for you, creating a temporary unnamed variable to hold the iterator for the duration of the loop. See also iterator, sequence, and generator. iterator An object representing a stream of data. Repeated calls to the iterators __next__() method (or passing it to the built-in function next()) return successive items in the stream. When no more data are available a StopIteration exception is raised instead. At this point, the iterator object is exhausted and any further calls to its __next__() method just raise StopIteration again. Iterators are required to have an __iter__() method that returns the iterator object itself so every iterator is also iterable and may be used in most places where other iterables are accepted. One notable exception is code which attempts multiple iteration passes. A container object (such as a list) produces a fresh new iterator each time you pass it to the iter() function or use it in a for loop. Attempting this with an iterator will just return the same exhausted iterator object used in the previous iteration pass, making it appear like an empty container. More information can be found in typeiter. key function A key function or collation function is a callable that returns a value used for sorting or ordering. For example, locale.strxfrm() is used to produce a sort key that is aware of locale specic sort conventions. A number of tools in Python accept key functions to control how elements are ordered or grouped. They include min(), max(), sorted(), list.sort(), heapq.nsmallest(), heapq.nlargest(), and itertools.groupby(). 28 Appendix A. Glossary

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There are several ways to create a key function. For example. the str.lower() method can serve as a key function for case insensitive sorts. Alternatively, an ad-hoc key function can be built from a lambda expression such as lambda r: (r[0], r[2]). Also, the operator module provides three key function constructors: attrgetter(), itemgetter(), and methodcaller(). See the Sorting HOW TO for examples of how to create and use key functions. keyword argument Arguments which are preceded with a variable_name= in the call. The variable name designates the local name in the function to which the value is assigned. ** is used to accept or pass a dictionary of keyword arguments. See argument. lambda An anonymous inline function consisting of a single expression which is evaluated when the function is called. The syntax to create a lambda function is lambda [arguments]: expression LBYL Look before you leap. This coding style explicitly tests for pre-conditions before making calls or lookups. This style contrasts with the EAFP approach and is characterized by the presence of many if statements. In a multi-threaded environment, the LBYL approach can risk introducing a race condition between the looking and the leaping. For example, the code, if key in mapping: return mapping[key] can fail if another thread removes key from mapping after the test, but before the lookup. This issue can be solved with locks or by using the EAFP approach. list A built-in Python sequence. Despite its name it is more akin to an array in other languages than to a linked list since access to elements are O(1). list comprehension A compact way to process all or part of the elements in a sequence and return a list with the results. result = [{:#04x}.format(x) for x in range(256) if x % 2 == 0] generates a list of strings containing even hex numbers (0x..) in the range from 0 to 255. The if clause is optional. If omitted, all elements in range(256) are processed. loader An object that loads a module. It must dene a method named load_module(). A loader is typically returned by a nder. See PEP 302 for details and importlib.abc.Loader for an abstract base class. mapping A container object that supports arbitrary key lookups and implements the methods specied in the Mapping or MutableMapping abstract base classes. Examples include dict, collections.defaultdict, collections.OrderedDict and collections.Counter. metaclass The class of a class. Class denitions create a class name, a class dictionary, and a list of base classes. The metaclass is responsible for taking those three arguments and creating the class. Most object oriented programming languages provide a default implementation. What makes Python special is that it is possible to create custom metaclasses. Most users never need this tool, but when the need arises, metaclasses can provide powerful, elegant solutions. They have been used for logging attribute access, adding thread-safety, tracking object creation, implementing singletons, and many other tasks. More information can be found in metaclasses. method A function which is dened inside a class body. If called as an attribute of an instance of that class, the method will get the instance object as its rst argument (which is usually called self). See function and nested scope. method resolution order Method Resolution Order is the order in which base classes are searched for a member during lookup. See The Python 2.3 Method Resolution Order. MRO See method resolution order. mutable Mutable objects can change their value but keep their id(). See also immutable. named tuple Any tuple-like class whose indexable elements are also accessible using named attributes (for example, time.localtime() returns a tuple-like object where the year is accessible either with an index such as t[0] or with a named attribute like t.tm_year). A named tuple can be a built-in type such as time.struct_time, or it can be created with a regular class denition. A full featured named tuple can also be created with the factory function collections.namedtuple(). The latter approach automatically provides extra features such as a self-documenting representation like Employee(name=jones, title=programmer). namespace The place where a variable is stored. Namespaces are implemented as dictionaries. There are the local, global and built-in namespaces as well as nested namespaces in objects (in methods). Namespaces 29

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support modularity by preventing naming conicts. For instance, the functions builtins.open() and os.open() are distinguished by their namespaces. Namespaces also aid readability and maintainability by making it clear which module implements a function. For instance, writing random.seed() or itertools.islice() makes it clear that those functions are implemented by the random and itertools modules, respectively. nested scope The ability to refer to a variable in an enclosing denition. For instance, a function dened inside another function can refer to variables in the outer function. Note that nested scopes by default work only for reference and not for assignment. Local variables both read and write in the innermost scope. Likewise, global variables read and write to the global namespace. The nonlocal allows writing to outer scopes. new-style class Old name for the avor of classes now used for all class objects. In earlier Python versions, only new-style classes could use Pythons newer, versatile features like __slots__, descriptors, properties, __getattribute__(), class methods, and static methods. object Any data with state (attributes or value) and dened behavior (methods). Also the ultimate base class of any new-style class. positional argument The arguments assigned to local names inside a function or method, determined by the order in which they were given in the call. * is used to either accept multiple positional arguments (when in the denition), or pass several arguments as a list to a function. See argument. Python 3000 Nickname for the Python 3.x release line (coined long ago when the release of version 3 was something in the distant future.) This is also abbreviated Py3k. Pythonic An idea or piece of code which closely follows the most common idioms of the Python language, rather than implementing code using concepts common to other languages. For example, a common idiom in Python is to loop over all elements of an iterable using a for statement. Many other languages dont have this type of construct, so people unfamiliar with Python sometimes use a numerical counter instead: for i in range(len(food)): print(food[i]) As opposed to the cleaner, Pythonic method: for piece in food: print(piece) reference count The number of references to an object. When the reference count of an object drops to zero, it is deallocated. Reference counting is generally not visible to Python code, but it is a key element of the CPython implementation. The sys module denes a getrefcount() function that programmers can call to return the reference count for a particular object. __slots__ A declaration inside a class that saves memory by pre-declaring space for instance attributes and eliminating instance dictionaries. Though popular, the technique is somewhat tricky to get right and is best reserved for rare cases where there are large numbers of instances in a memory-critical application. sequence An iterable which supports efcient element access using integer indices via the __getitem__() special method and denes a len() method that returns the length of the sequence. Some built-in sequence types are list, str, tuple, and bytes. Note that dict also supports __getitem__() and __len__(), but is considered a mapping rather than a sequence because the lookups use arbitrary immutable keys rather than integers. slice An object usually containing a portion of a sequence. A slice is created using the subscript notation, [] with colons between numbers when several are given, such as in variable_name[1:3:5]. The bracket (subscript) notation uses slice objects internally. special method A method that is called implicitly by Python to execute a certain operation on a type, such as addition. Such methods have names starting and ending with double underscores. Special methods are documented in specialnames. statement A statement is part of a suite (a block of code). A statement is either an expression or a one of several constructs with a keyword, such as if, while or for. triple-quoted string A string which is bound by three instances of either a quotation mark () or an apostrophe (). While they dont provide any functionality not available with single-quoted strings, they are useful for a

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number of reasons. They allow you to include unescaped single and double quotes within a string and they can span multiple lines without the use of the continuation character, making them especially useful when writing docstrings. type The type of a Python object determines what kind of object it is; every object has a type. An objects type is accessible as its __class__ attribute or can be retrieved with type(obj). view The objects returned from dict.keys(), dict.values(), and dict.items() are called dictionary views. They are lazy sequences that will see changes in the underlying dictionary. To force the dictionary view to become a full list use list(dictview). See dict-views. virtual machine A computer dened entirely in software. Pythons virtual machine executes the bytecode emitted by the bytecode compiler. Zen of Python Listing of Python design principles and philosophies that are helpful in understanding and using the language. The listing can be found by typing import this at the interactive prompt.

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These documents are generated from reStructuredText sources by Sphinx, a document processor specically written for the Python documentation. Development of the documentation and its toolchain takes place on the [email protected] mailing list. Were always looking for volunteers wanting to help with the docs, so feel free to send a mail there! Many thanks go to: Fred L. Drake, Jr., the creator of the original Python documentation toolset and writer of much of the content; the Docutils project for creating reStructuredText and the Docutils suite; Fredrik Lundh for his Alternative Python Reference project from which Sphinx got many good ideas. See reporting-bugs for information how to report bugs in this documentation, or Python itself.

B.1 Contributors to the Python Documentation

This section lists people who have contributed in some way to the Python documentation. It is probably not complete if you feel that you or anyone else should be on this list, please let us know (send email to [email protected]), and well be glad to correct the problem. Aahz, Michael Abbott, Steve Alexander, Jim Ahlstrom, Fred Allen, A. Amoroso, Pehr Anderson, Oliver Andrich, Heidi Annexstad, Jess Cea Avin, Manuel Balsera, Daniel Barclay, Chris Barker, Don Bashford, Anthony Baxter, Alexander Belopolsky, Bennett Benson, Jonathan Black, Robin Boerdijk, Michal Bozon, Aaron Brancotti, Georg Brandl, Keith Briggs, Ian Bruntlett, Lee Busby, Arnaud Calmettes, Lorenzo M. Catucci, Carl Cerecke, Mauro Cicognini, Gilles Civario, Mike Clarkson, Steve Clift, Dave Cole, Matthew Cowles, Jeremy Craven, Andrew Dalke, Ben Darnell, L. Peter Deutsch, Robert Donohue, Fred L. Drake, Jr., Jacques Ducasse, Josip Dzolonga, Jeff Epler, Michael Ernst, Blame Andy Eskilsson, Carey Evans, Martijn Faassen, Carl Feynman, Dan Finnie, Hernn Martnez Foffani, Michael Foord, Stefan Franke, Jim Fulton, Peter Funk, Lele Gaifax, Matthew Gallagher, Gabriel Genellina, Ben Gertzeld, Nadim Ghaznavi, Jonathan Giddy, Matt Giuca, Shelley Gooch, Nathaniel Gray, Grant Grifn, Thomas Guettler, Anders Hammarquist, Mark Hammond, Harald Hanche-Olsen, Manus Hand, Gerhard Hring, Travis B. Hartwell, Tim Hatch, Janko Hauser, Ben Hayden, Thomas Heller, Bernhard Herzog, Magnus L. Hetland, Konrad Hinsen, Stefan Hoffmeister, Albert Hofkamp, Gregor Hofeit, Steve Holden, Thomas Holenstein, Gerrit Holl, Rob Hooft, Brian Hooper, Randall Hopper, Michael Hudson, Eric Huss, Jeremy Hylton, Roger Irwin, Jack Jansen, Philip H. Jensen, Pedro Diaz Jimenez, Kent Johnson, Lucas de Jonge, Andreas Jung, Robert Kern, Jim Kerr, Jan Kim, Kamil Kisiel, Greg Kochanski, Guido Kollerie, Peter A. Koren, Daniel Kozan, Andrew M. Kuchling, Dave Kuhlman, Erno Kuusela, Ross Lagerwall, Thomas Lamb, Detlef Lannert, Piers Lauder, Glyph Lefkowitz, Robert Lehmann, Marc-Andr Lemburg, Ross Light, Gediminas Liktaras, Ulf A. Lindgren, Everett Lipman, Mirko Liss, Martin von Lwis, Fredrik Lundh, Jeff MacDonald, John Machin, Andrew MacIntyre, Vladimir Marangozov, Vincent Marchetti, Westley Martnez, Laura Matson, Daniel May, Rebecca McCreary, Doug Mennella, Paolo Milani, Skip Montanaro, Paul Moore, Ross Moore, Sjoerd Mullender, Dale Nagata, Trent Nelson, Michal Nowikowski, Steffen Daode Nurpmeso, Ng Pheng Siong, Koray Oner, Tomas Oppelstrup, Denis S. Otkidach, Zooko OWhielacronx, Shriphani Palakodety, William Park, Joonas Paalasmaa, Harri Pasanen, Bo Peng, Tim Peters, Benjamin Peterson, Christopher Petrilli, Justin D. Pettit, Chris Phoenix, Franois

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Pinard, Paul Prescod, Eric S. Raymond, Edward K. Ream, Terry J. Reedy, Sean Reifschneider, Bernhard Reiter, Armin Rigo, Wes Rishel, Armin Ronacher, Jim Roskind, Guido van Rossum, Donald Wallace Rouse II, Mark Russell, Nick Russo, Chris Ryland, Constantina S., Hugh Sasse, Bob Savage, Scott Schram, Neil Schemenauer, Barry Scott, Joakim Sernbrant, Justin Sheehy, Charlie Shepherd, Yue Shuaijie, SilentGhost, Michael Simcich, Ionel Simionescu, Michael Sloan, Gregory P. Smith, Roy Smith, Clay Spence, Nicholas Spies, Tage Stabell-Kulo, Frank Stajano, Anthony Starks, Greg Stein, Peter Stoehr, Mark Summereld, Reuben Sumner, Kalle Svensson, Jim Tittsler, David Turner, Sandro Tosi, Ville Vainio, Martijn Vries, Charles G. Waldman, Greg Ward, Barry Warsaw, Corran Webster, Glyn Webster, Bob Weiner, Eddy Welbourne, Jeff Wheeler, Mats Wichmann, Gerry Wiener, Timothy Wild, Paul Winkler, Collin Winter, Blake Winton, Dan Wolfe, Adam Woodbeck, Steven Work, Thomas Wouters, Ka-Ping Yee, Rory Yorke, Moshe Zadka, Milan Zamazal, Cheng Zhang. It is only with the input and contributions of the Python community that Python has such wonderful documentation Thank You!

Appendix B. About these documents

APPENDIX

HISTORY AND LICENSE

C.1 History of the software
Python was created in the early 1990s by Guido van Rossum at Stichting Mathematisch Centrum (CWI, see http://www.cwi.nl/) in the Netherlands as a successor of a language called ABC. Guido remains Pythons principal author, although it includes many contributions from others. In 1995, Guido continued his work on Python at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI, see http://www.cnri.reston.va.us/) in Reston, Virginia where he released several versions of the software. In May 2000, Guido and the Python core development team moved to BeOpen.com to form the BeOpen PythonLabs team. In October of the same year, the PythonLabs team moved to Digital Creations (now Zope Corporation; see http://www.zope.com/). In 2001, the Python Software Foundation (PSF, see http://www.python.org/psf/) was formed, a non-prot organization created specically to own Python-related Intellectual Property. Zope Corporation is a sponsoring member of the PSF. All Python releases are Open Source (see http://www.opensource.org/ for the Open Source Denition). Historically, most, but not all, Python releases have also been GPL-compatible; the table below summarizes the various releases. Release 0.9.0 thru 1.2 1.3 thru 1.5.2 1.6 2.0 1.6.1 2.1 2.0.1 2.1.1 2.2 2.1.2 2.1.3 2.2.1 2.2.2 2.2.3 2.3 2.3.1 2.3.2 2.3.3 2.3.4 2.3.5 2.4 2.4.1 2.4.2 2.4.3 Derived from n/a 1.2 1.5.2 1.6 1.6 2.0+1.6.1 2.0+1.6.1 2.1+2.0.1 2.1.1 2.1.1 2.1.2 2.2 2.2.1 2.2.2 2.2.2 2.3 2.3.1 2.3.2 2.3.3 2.3.4 2.3 2.4 2.4.1 2.4.2 Year 1991-1995 1995-1999 2000 2000 2001 2001 2001 2001 2001 2002 2002 2002 2002 2002-2003 2002-2003 2002-2003 2003 2003 2004 2005 2004 2005 2005 2006 Owner GPL compatible? CWI yes CNRI yes CNRI no BeOpen.com no CNRI no PSF no PSF yes PSF yes PSF yes PSF yes PSF yes PSF yes PSF yes PSF yes PSF yes PSF yes PSF yes PSF yes PSF yes PSF yes PSF yes PSF yes PSF yes PSF yes Continued on next page

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2.4.4 2.5 2.5.1 2.6 2.6.1 2.6.2 2.6.3 2.6.4 3.0 3.0.1 3.1 3.1.1 3.1.2 3.1.3 3.1.4 3.2 3.2.1 3.2.2 3.2.3

Table C.1 continued from previous page 2.4.3 2006 PSF yes 2.4 2006 PSF yes 2.5 2007 PSF yes 2.5 2008 PSF yes 2.6 2008 PSF yes 2.6.1 2009 PSF yes 2.6.2 2009 PSF yes 2.6.3 2009 PSF yes 2.6 2008 PSF yes 3.0 2009 PSF yes 3.0.1 2009 PSF yes 3.1 2009 PSF yes 3.1.1 2010 PSF yes 3.1.2 2010 PSF yes 3.1.3 2011 PSF yes 3.1 2011 PSF yes 3.2 2011 PSF yes 3.2.1 2011 PSF yes 3.2.2 2012 PSF yes

Note: GPL-compatible doesnt mean that were distributing Python under the GPL. All Python licenses, unlike the GPL, let you distribute a modied version without making your changes open source. The GPL-compatible licenses make it possible to combine Python with other software that is released under the GPL; the others dont. Thanks to the many outside volunteers who have worked under Guidos direction to make these releases possible.

C.2 Terms and conditions for accessing or otherwise using Python

PSF LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR PYTHON 3.2.3 1. This LICENSE AGREEMENT is between the Python Software Foundation (PSF), and the Individual or Organization (Licensee) accessing and otherwise using Python 3.2.3 software in source or binary form and its associated documentation. 2. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License Agreement, PSF hereby grants Licensee a nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide license to reproduce, analyze, test, perform and/or display publicly, prepare derivative works, distribute, and otherwise use Python 3.2.3 alone or in any derivative version, provided, however, that PSFs License Agreement and PSFs notice of copyright, i.e., Copyright 2001-2012 Python Software Foundation; All Rights Reserved are retained in Python 3.2.3 alone or in any derivative version prepared by Licensee. 3. In the event Licensee prepares a derivative work that is based on or incorporates Python 3.2.3 or any part thereof, and wants to make the derivative work available to others as provided herein, then Licensee hereby agrees to include in any such work a brief summary of the changes made to Python 3.2.3. 4. PSF is making Python 3.2.3 available to Licensee on an AS IS basis. PSF MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. BY WAY OF EXAMPLE, BUT NOT LIMITATION, PSF MAKES NO AND DISCLAIMS ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE OF PYTHON 3.2.3 WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY THIRD PARTY RIGHTS. 5. PSF SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO LICENSEE OR ANY OTHER USERS OF PYTHON 3.2.3 FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR LOSS AS A RESULT OF MODIFYING, DISTRIBUTING, OR OTHERWISE USING PYTHON 3.2.3, OR ANY DERIVATIVE THEREOF, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY THEREOF. 6. This License Agreement will automatically terminate upon a material breach of its terms and conditions. 36 Appendix C. History and License

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7. Nothing in this License Agreement shall be deemed to create any relationship of agency, partnership, or joint venture between PSF and Licensee. This License Agreement does not grant permission to use PSF trademarks or trade name in a trademark sense to endorse or promote products or services of Licensee, or any third party. 8. By copying, installing or otherwise using Python 3.2.3, Licensee agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions of this License Agreement. BEOPEN.COM LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR PYTHON 2.0 BEOPEN PYTHON OPEN SOURCE LICENSE AGREEMENT VERSION 1 1. This LICENSE AGREEMENT is between BeOpen.com (BeOpen), having an ofce at 160 Saratoga Avenue, Santa Clara, CA 95051, and the Individual or Organization (Licensee) accessing and otherwise using this software in source or binary form and its associated documentation (the Software). 2. Subject to the terms and conditions of this BeOpen Python License Agreement, BeOpen hereby grants Licensee a non-exclusive, royalty-free, world-wide license to reproduce, analyze, test, perform and/or display publicly, prepare derivative works, distribute, and otherwise use the Software alone or in any derivative version, provided, however, that the BeOpen Python License is retained in the Software, alone or in any derivative version prepared by Licensee. 3. BeOpen is making the Software available to Licensee on an AS IS basis. BEOPEN MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. BY WAY OF EXAMPLE, BUT NOT LIMITATION, BEOPEN MAKES NO AND DISCLAIMS ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE OF THE SOFTWARE WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY THIRD PARTY RIGHTS. 4. BEOPEN SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO LICENSEE OR ANY OTHER USERS OF THE SOFTWARE FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR LOSS AS A RESULT OF USING, MODIFYING OR DISTRIBUTING THE SOFTWARE, OR ANY DERIVATIVE THEREOF, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY THEREOF. 5. This License Agreement will automatically terminate upon a material breach of its terms and conditions. 6. This License Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted in all respects by the law of the State of California, excluding conict of law provisions. Nothing in this License Agreement shall be deemed to create any relationship of agency, partnership, or joint venture between BeOpen and Licensee. This License Agreement does not grant permission to use BeOpen trademarks or trade names in a trademark sense to endorse or promote products or services of Licensee, or any third party. As an exception, the BeOpen Python logos available at http://www.pythonlabs.com/logos.html may be used according to the permissions granted on that web page. 7. By copying, installing or otherwise using the software, Licensee agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions of this License Agreement. CNRI LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR PYTHON 1.6.1 1. This LICENSE AGREEMENT is between the Corporation for National Research Initiatives, having an ofce at 1895 Preston White Drive, Reston, VA 20191 (CNRI), and the Individual or Organization (Licensee) accessing and otherwise using Python 1.6.1 software in source or binary form and its associated documentation. 2. Subject to the terms and conditions of this License Agreement, CNRI hereby grants Licensee a nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide license to reproduce, analyze, test, perform and/or display publicly, prepare derivative works, distribute, and otherwise use Python 1.6.1 alone or in any derivative version, provided, however, that CNRIs License Agreement and CNRIs notice of copyright, i.e., Copyright 1995-2001 Corporation for National Research Initiatives; All Rights Reserved are retained in Python 1.6.1 alone or in any derivative version prepared by Licensee. Alternately, in lieu of CNRIs License Agreement, Licensee may substitute the following text (omitting the quotes): Python 1.6.1 is made available subject to the terms and conditions in CNRIs License Agreement. This Agreement together with Python 1.6.1 may be located on the Internet using the following unique, persistent identier (known as a handle): 1895.22/1013. This Agreement may also be obtained from a proxy server on the Internet using the following URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1895.22/1013.

C.2. Terms and conditions for accessing or otherwise using Python

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3. In the event Licensee prepares a derivative work that is based on or incorporates Python 1.6.1 or any part thereof, and wants to make the derivative work available to others as provided herein, then Licensee hereby agrees to include in any such work a brief summary of the changes made to Python 1.6.1. 4. CNRI is making Python 1.6.1 available to Licensee on an AS IS basis. CNRI MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED. BY WAY OF EXAMPLE, BUT NOT LIMITATION, CNRI MAKES NO AND DISCLAIMS ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE OF PYTHON 1.6.1 WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY THIRD PARTY RIGHTS. 5. CNRI SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO LICENSEE OR ANY OTHER USERS OF PYTHON 1.6.1 FOR ANY INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR LOSS AS A RESULT OF MODIFYING, DISTRIBUTING, OR OTHERWISE USING PYTHON 1.6.1, OR ANY DERIVATIVE THEREOF, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY THEREOF. 6. This License Agreement will automatically terminate upon a material breach of its terms and conditions. 7. This License Agreement shall be governed by the federal intellectual property law of the United States, including without limitation the federal copyright law, and, to the extent such U.S. federal law does not apply, by the law of the Commonwealth of Virginia, excluding Virginias conict of law provisions. Notwithstanding the foregoing, with regard to derivative works based on Python 1.6.1 that incorporate non-separable material that was previously distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), the law of the Commonwealth of Virginia shall govern this License Agreement only as to issues arising under or with respect to Paragraphs 4, 5, and 7 of this License Agreement. Nothing in this License Agreement shall be deemed to create any relationship of agency, partnership, or joint venture between CNRI and Licensee. This License Agreement does not grant permission to use CNRI trademarks or trade name in a trademark sense to endorse or promote products or services of Licensee, or any third party. 8. By clicking on the ACCEPT button where indicated, or by copying, installing or otherwise using Python 1.6.1, Licensee agrees to be bound by the terms and conditions of this License Agreement. ACCEPT CWI LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR PYTHON 0.9.0 THROUGH 1.2 Copyright 1991 - 1995, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum Amsterdam, The Netherlands. All rights reserved. Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of Stichting Mathematisch Centrum or CWI not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specic, written prior permission. STICHTING MATHEMATISCH CENTRUM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL STICHTING MATHEMATISCH CENTRUM BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

C.3 Licenses and Acknowledgements for Incorporated Software

This section is an incomplete, but growing list of licenses and acknowledgements for third-party software incorporated in the Python distribution.

C.3.1 Mersenne Twister

The _random module includes code based on a download from http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/ matumoto/MT2002/emt19937ar.html. The following are the verbatim comments from the original code:

Appendix C. History and License

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A C-program for MT19937, with initialization improved 2002/1/26. Coded by Takuji Nishimura and Makoto Matsumoto. Before using, initialize the state by using init_genrand(seed) or init_by_array(init_key, key_length). Copyright (C) 1997 - 2002, Makoto Matsumoto and Takuji Nishimura, All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 3. The names of its contributors may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

Any feedback is very welcome. http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/matumoto/emt.html email: [email protected]

C.3.2 Sockets
The socket module uses the functions, getaddrinfo(), and getnameinfo(), which are coded in separate source les from the WIDE Project, http://www.wide.ad.jp/. Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998 WIDE Project. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 3. Neither the name of the project nor the names of its contributors C.3. Licenses and Acknowledgements for Incorporated Software 39

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may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE PROJECT AND CONTRIBUTORS AS IS AND GAI_ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE PROJECT OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR GAI_ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON GAI_ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN GAI_ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

C.3.3 Floating point exception control

The source for the fpectl module includes the following notice: --------------------------------------------------------------------/ Copyright (c) 1996. \ | The Regents of the University of California. | | All rights reserved. | | | | Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for | | any purpose without fee is hereby granted, provided that this en| | tire notice is included in all copies of any software which is or | | includes a copy or modification of this software and in all | | copies of the supporting documentation for such software. | | | | This work was produced at the University of California, Lawrence | | Livermore National Laboratory under contract no. W-7405-ENG-48 | | between the U.S. Department of Energy and The Regents of the | | University of California for the operation of UC LLNL. | | | | DISCLAIMER | | | | This software was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an | | agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States | | Government nor the University of California nor any of their em| | ployees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any | | liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or | | usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process | | disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe | | privately-owned rights. Reference herein to any specific commer| | cial products, process, or service by trade name, trademark, | | manufacturer, or otherwise, does not necessarily constitute or | | imply its endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the United | | States Government or the University of California. The views and | | opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or | | reflect those of the United States Government or the University | | of California, and shall not be used for advertising or product | \ endorsement purposes. / ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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C.3.4 Asynchronous socket services

The asynchat and asyncore modules contain the following notice: Copyright 1996 by Sam Rushing All Rights Reserved Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of Sam Rushing not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. SAM RUSHING DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL SAM RUSHING BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

C.3.5 Cookie management

The http.cookies module contains the following notice: Copyright 2000 by Timothy OMalley <[email protected]> All Rights Reserved Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of Timothy OMalley not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. Timothy OMalley DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL Timothy OMalley BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

C.3.6 Execution tracing

The trace module contains the following notice: portions copyright 2001, Autonomous Zones Industries, Inc., all rights... err... reserved and offered to the public under the terms of the Python 2.2 license. C.3. Licenses and Acknowledgements for Incorporated Software 41

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Author: Zooko OWhielacronx http://zooko.com/ mailto:[email protected] Copyright 2000, Mojam Media, Inc., all rights reserved. Author: Skip Montanaro Copyright 1999, Bioreason, Inc., all rights reserved. Author: Andrew Dalke Copyright 1995-1997, Automatrix, Inc., all rights reserved. Author: Skip Montanaro Copyright 1991-1995, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, all rights reserved.

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this Python software and its associated documentation for any purpose without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies, and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of neither Automatrix, Bioreason or Mojam Media be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission.

C.3.7 UUencode and UUdecode functions

The uu module contains the following notice: Copyright 1994 by Lance Ellinghouse Cathedral City, California Republic, United States of America. All Rights Reserved Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of Lance Ellinghouse not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. LANCE ELLINGHOUSE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL LANCE ELLINGHOUSE CENTRUM BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. Modified by Jack Jansen, CWI, July 1995: - Use binascii module to do the actual line-by-line conversion between ascii and binary. This results in a 1000-fold speedup. The C version is still 5 times faster, though. - Arguments more compliant with Python standard

C.3.8 XML Remote Procedure Calls

The xmlrpc.client module contains the following notice:

Appendix C. History and License

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The XML-RPC client interface is Copyright (c) 1999-2002 by Secret Labs AB Copyright (c) 1999-2002 by Fredrik Lundh By obtaining, using, and/or copying this software and/or its associated documentation, you agree that you have read, understood, and will comply with the following terms and conditions: Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its associated documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies, and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that the name of Secret Labs AB or the author not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission. SECRET LABS AB AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL SECRET LABS AB OR THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

C.3.9 test_epoll
The test_epoll contains the following notice: Copyright (c) 2001-2006 Twisted Matrix Laboratories. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

C.3.10 Select kqueue

The select and contains the following notice for the kqueue interface:

C.3. Licenses and Acknowledgements for Incorporated Software

Python Setup and Usage, Release 3.2.3

Copyright (c) 2000 Doug White, 2006 James Knight, 2007 Christian Heimes All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS AS IS AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

C.3.11 strtod and dtoa

The le Python/dtoa.c, which supplies C functions dtoa and strtod for conversion of C doubles to and from strings, is derived from the le of the same name by David M. Gay, currently available from http://www.netlib.org/fp/. The original le, as retrieved on March 16, 2009, contains the following copyright and licensing notice: /**************************************************************** * * The author of this software is David M. Gay. * * Copyright (c) 1991, 2000, 2001 by Lucent Technologies. * * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any * purpose without fee is hereby granted, provided that this entire notice * is included in all copies of any software which is or includes a copy * or modification of this software and in all copies of the supporting * documentation for such software. * * THIS SOFTWARE IS BEING PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED * WARRANTY. IN PARTICULAR, NEITHER THE AUTHOR NOR LUCENT MAKES ANY * REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY OF ANY KIND CONCERNING THE MERCHANTABILITY * OF THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. * ***************************************************************/

C.3.12 OpenSSL
The modules hashlib, posix, ssl, crypt use the OpenSSL library for added performance if made available by the operating system. Additionally, the Windows installers for Python include a copy of the OpenSSL libraries, so we include a copy of the OpenSSL license here:

Appendix C. History and License

Python Setup and Usage, Release 3.2.3

LICENSE ISSUES ============== The OpenSSL toolkit stays under a dual license, i.e. both the conditions of the OpenSSL License and the original SSLeay license apply to the toolkit. See below for the actual license texts. Actually both licenses are BSD-style Open Source licenses. In case of any license issues related to OpenSSL please contact [email protected]. OpenSSL License --------------/* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ==================================================================== Copyright (c) 1998-2008 The OpenSSL Project. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgment: "This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/)" 4. The names "OpenSSL Toolkit" and "OpenSSL Project" must not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without prior written permission. For written permission, please contact [email protected]. 5. Products derived from this software may not be called "OpenSSL" nor may "OpenSSL" appear in their names without prior written permission of the OpenSSL Project. 6. Redistributions of any form whatsoever must retain the following acknowledgment: "This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/)" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE OpenSSL PROJECT AS IS AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE OpenSSL PROJECT OR ITS CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

C.3. Licenses and Acknowledgements for Incorporated Software

Python Setup and Usage, Release 3.2.3

* ==================================================================== * * This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young * ([email protected]). This product includes software written by Tim * Hudson ([email protected]). * */ Original SSLeay License ----------------------/* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Eric Young ([email protected]) All rights reserved. This package is an SSL implementation written by Eric Young ([email protected]). The implementation was written so as to conform with Netscapes SSL. This library is free for commercial and non-commercial use as long as the following conditions are aheared to. The following conditions apply to all code found in this distribution, be it the RC4, RSA, lhash, DES, etc., code; not just the SSL code. The SSL documentation included with this distribution is covered by the same copyright terms except that the holder is Tim Hudson ([email protected]). Copyright remains Eric Youngs, and as such any Copyright notices in the code are not to be removed. If this package is used in a product, Eric Young should be given attribution as the author of the parts of the library used. This can be in the form of a textual message at program startup or in documentation (online or textual) provided with the package. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement: "This product includes cryptographic software written by Eric Young ([email protected])" The word cryptographic can be left out if the rouines from the library being used are not cryptographic related :-). 4. If you include any Windows specific code (or a derivative thereof) from the apps directory (application code) you must include an acknowledgement: "This product includes software written by Tim Hudson ([email protected])" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY ERIC YOUNG AS IS AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT

Appendix C. History and License

Python Setup and Usage, Release 3.2.3

* LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF * SUCH DAMAGE. * * The licence and distribution terms for any publically available version or * derivative of this code cannot be changed. i.e. this code cannot simply be * copied and put under another distribution licence * [including the GNU Public Licence.] */

C.3.13 expat
The pyexpat extension is built using an included copy of the expat sources unless the build is congured --with-system-expat: Copyright (c) 1998, 1999, 2000 Thai Open Source Software Center Ltd and Clark Cooper Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

C.3.14 libf
The _ctypes extension is built using an included copy of the libf sources unless the build is congured --with-system-libffi: Copyright (c) 1996-2008 Red Hat, Inc and others.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the Software), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF

C.3. Licenses and Acknowledgements for Incorporated Software

Python Setup and Usage, Release 3.2.3

MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

C.3.15 zlib
The zlib extension is built using an included copy of the zlib sources if the zlib version found on the system is too old to be used for the build: Copyright (C) 1995-2011 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler This software is provided as-is, without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software. Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions: 1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required. 2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software. 3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution. Jean-loup Gailly [email protected] Mark Adler [email protected]

Appendix C. History and License

APPENDIX

COPYRIGHT
Python and this documentation is: Copyright 2001-2012 Python Software Foundation. All rights reserved. Copyright 2000 BeOpen.com. All rights reserved. Copyright 1995-2000 Corporation for National Research Initiatives. All rights reserved. Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum. All rights reserved.

See History and License for complete license and permissions information.

Python Setup and Usage, Release 3.2.3

Appendix D. Copyright

INDEX

Symbols
help command line option, 4 version command line option, 5 -B command line option, 5 -E command line option, 5 -J command line option, 7 -O command line option, 5 -OO command line option, 5 -R command line option, 5 -S command line option, 6 -V command line option, 5 -W arg command line option, 6 -X command line option, 7 -b command line option, 5 -c <command> command line option, 3 -d command line option, 5 -h command line option, 4 -i command line option, 5 -m <module-name> command line option, 3 -q command line option, 5 -s command line option, 5 -u command line option, 6 -v command line option, 6

-x command line option, 6 ..., 25 %PATH%, 16 future, 27 slots, 30 >>>, 25 2to3, 25

A
abstract base class, 25 argument, 25 attribute, 25

B
BDFL, 25 bytecode, 25

C
class, 25 coercion, 25 command line option help, 4 version, 5 -B, 5 -E, 5 -J, 7 -O, 5 -OO, 5 -R, 5 -S, 6 -V, 5 -W arg, 6 -X, 7 -b, 5 -c <command>, 3 -d, 5 -h, 4 -i, 5 -m <module-name>, 3 -q, 5 -s, 5 -u, 6 -v, 6 -x, 6 complex number, 25 51

Python Setup and Usage, Release 3.2.3

context manager, 26 CPython, 26

I
IDLE, 28 immutable, 28 importer, 28 interactive, 28 interpreted, 28 iterable, 28 iterator, 28

D
decorator, 26 descriptor, 26 dictionary, 26 docstring, 26 duck-typing, 26

E
EAFP, 26 environment variable %PATH%, 16 exec_prex, 12 PATH, 7, 12 prex, 12 PYTHON*, 5 PYTHONCASEOK, 8 PYTHONDEBUG, 5, 7 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, 5, 8 PYTHONDUMPREFS, 9 PYTHONEXECUTABLE, 8 PYTHONHASHSEED, 5, 8 PYTHONHOME, 5, 7, 17 PYTHONINSPECT, 5, 8 PYTHONIOENCODING, 8 PYTHONMALLOCSTATS, 9 PYTHONNOUSERSITE, 8 PYTHONOPTIMIZE, 5, 7 PYTHONPATH, 5, 7, 16, 17, 22 PYTHONSTARTUP, 5, 7 PYTHONTHREADDEBUG, 9 PYTHONUNBUFFERED, 6, 8 PYTHONUSERBASE, 8 PYTHONVERBOSE, 6, 8 PYTHONWARNINGS, 6, 8 PYTHONY2K, 7 exec_prex, 12 expression, 26 extension module, 27

K
key function, 28 keyword argument, 29

L
lambda, 29 LBYL, 29 list, 29 list comprehension, 29 loader, 29

M
mapping, 29 metaclass, 29 method, 29 method resolution order, 29 MRO, 29 mutable, 29

N
named tuple, 29 namespace, 29 nested scope, 30 new-style class, 30

O
object, 30

P
PATH, 7, 12 positional argument, 30 prex, 12 Python 3000, 30 Python Enhancement Proposals PEP 11, 15 PEP 230, 6 PEP 238, 27 PEP 302, 27, 29 PEP 338, 4 PEP 343, 26 PEP 370, 6, 8 PYTHON*, 5 PYTHONDEBUG, 5 PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE, 5 PYTHONHASHSEED, 5, 8 PYTHONHOME, 5, 7, 17 Pythonic, 30 PYTHONINSPECT, 5

F
le object, 27 le-like object, 27 nder, 27 oor division, 27 function, 27

G
garbage collection, 27 generator, 27 generator expression, 27 GIL, 27 global interpreter lock, 27

H
hashable, 28 52

Index

Python Setup and Usage, Release 3.2.3

PYTHONOPTIMIZE, 5 PYTHONPATH, 5, 7, 16, 17, 22 PYTHONSTARTUP, 5 PYTHONUNBUFFERED, 6 PYTHONVERBOSE, 6 PYTHONWARNINGS, 6

R
reference count, 30

S
sequence, 30 slice, 30 special method, 30 statement, 30

T
triple-quoted string, 30 type, 31

V
view, 31 virtual machine, 31

Z
Zen of Python, 31

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