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::Not just Windows: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActivePython more]]. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy]] ([[User talk:Paddy3118|talk]]) 09:16, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

:::Yes, sorry, you are quite correct. For Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. [http://www.activestate.com/activepython/]. Also includes a useful IDE PythonWin [http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonWin] <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">—Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Peterl|Peterl]] ([[User talk:Peterl|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Peterl|contribs]]) 22:42, 25 May 2009</span><!-- Template:Unsigned2 -->

== Memory what? ==

This is what the intro says:

{cquote|[Python] features a fully dynamic type system and automatic memory management, similar to Perl, Ruby, Scheme, and Tcl.}

Memory management in that part of the article links to real memory management (the kind the OS' do). Shouldn't that read: "[[garbage collection]]"? If not, why? Also what kind of "memory management" does Scheme posess, seeing as it is a (traditional) functional programming language, and thus supports no types. Will be watching the page. Thanks in advance. --[[User:Paxcoder|Paxcoder]] ([[User talk:Paxcoder|talk]]) 22:14, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

::Scratch that, [[memory management]] does distinguish the two (I'd still be more happy if it linked to GC, but nevermind now), please answer the second thing.--[[User:Paxcoder|Paxcoder]] ([[User talk:Paxcoder|talk]]) 22:17, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

:::Scheme does garbage collection in the sense that python does, (all implementations of scheme use GC, but details vary based on implementation) so again memory management may be a misleading term by whomever added it. Scheme is "untyped" in the sense that python is, eg. it does not have static types, but rather checks terms in it's runtime system. ("dynamic"/duck "typing")

== Versions ==

Would it be possible for someone who knows a little more about such things to provide some sort of commentary about the changes between the 2.x and 3.x versions of Python? I came over here hoping for a neat summary of the kind Wikipedia is good at, and was unable to find one. [[User:Meand|me_and]] ([[User talk:Meand|talk]]) 20:54, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

:Sounds like the article you are looking for is [[History of the Python programming language]]. That one is linked at top of the relevant section in this article already. <font color="darkgreen">[[User:Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters|LotLE]]</font>×<font color="darkred" size="-2">[[User talk:Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters|talk]]</font> 21:24, 28 June 2009 (UTC)