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::::: Oh now it's working for me. Thanks. The vagaries of the internet. It's a well sourced relevant page, although it would be interesting to see the original study. I guess it gives support to the 'fewer lines' claim. [[User:Peterl|peterl]] ([[User talk:Peterl|talk]]) 22:59, 11 April 2013 (UTC)

== Interpreted vs compiled ==

I'm not a python expert but I think it should be pointed out that the statement "Python is [...] ''interpreted'' high-level programming language" at the beginning of the article is at least misleading...and at most wrong. As it is explained [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6889747/is-python-interpreted-or-compiled-or-both here] and [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/745743/is-python-interpreted-like-javascript-or-php here], in the reference implementation a Python program is '''compiled''' into bytecode --[[User:Millsabord|Millsabord]] ([[User talk:Millsabord|talk]]) 22:57, 27 January 2013 (UTC)

:I agree that the term ''interpreted'' is not well-defined. However I think Python definitely qualifies for all modern definitions of ''interpreted''. As explained in [[Interpreter (computing)]], direct execution of source code is very rare. As far as I know no modern programming language uses this technique anymore. So excluding Python from the group of interpreted languages would basically mean that there are no interpreted languages at all. Anyhow I'm not strongly opposed to removing it as the term is definitely ambiguous.--[[Special:Contributions/91.114.185.145|91.114.185.145]] ([[User talk:91.114.185.145|talk]]) 13:06, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

@[[User:Carbo1200]] I see my remark has been taken into account, thanks --[[Special:Contributions/195.13.33.18|195.13.33.18]] ([[User talk:195.13.33.18|talk]]) 14:03, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

== History wrong ==

On this page, it is said in the right hand box, that Python "appears" in 1991. On this other page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Python , it is noted that Python 2.0 was released 16 October 2000 (quote from that page), but there have been releases 1.5 and 1.3, at least (I have a book about Python version 1.5). Therefore, I dispute the stated date. But I don't know the correct date, or otherwise, I would have corrected it.

[[Special:Contributions/2A01:170:1078:1:0:0:0:10AA|2A01:170:1078:1:0:0:0:10AA]] ([[User talk:2A01:170:1078:1:0:0:0:10AA|talk]]) 04:58, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

:First public release on alt.sources (v 0.9.0): Feb 20, 1991[http://python-history.blogspot.nl/2009/01/brief-timeline-of-python.html] according to Guido van Rossom. What is the dispute? --[[User:KimDabelsteinPetersen|Kim D. Petersen]] ([[User talk:KimDabelsteinPetersen|talk]]) 05:03, 3 March 2013 (UTC)