CPython

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CPython (or "Classic Python") is the default, most-widely used implementation of the Python programming language. It is written in C. In addition to CPython, there are two other production-quality Python implementations, Jython, written in Java, and IronPython, which is written for the Common Language Runtime, as well as several experimental implementations. ^[1]

CPython is a bytecode interpreter. It has a foreign function interface with several languages including C, in which one must explicitly write bindings in a language other than Python.

[edit] Supported platforms

Unix-like AIX operating system BSD Darwin FreeBSD Plan 9 from Bell Labs Mac OS X NetBSD Linux OpenBSD Solaris Other Unixes, e.g. Irix

Desktop OSes Amiga AROS BeOS DOS Mac OS 9 Microsoft Windows OS/2 RISC OS

Special and embedded GP2X iPodLinux Java virtual machine Nintendo DS Nintendo Gamecube Nokia 770 Internet Tablet Palm OS PlayStation 2 PlayStation Portable Psion QNX Sharp Zaurus Symbian OS Windows CE/Pocket PC Xbox/XBMC VxWorks

Mainframe and other AS/400 OS/390 VMS z/OS

[edit] References

1. ^  Martelli, Alex (2006). Python in a Nutshell, 2nd edition, O'Reilly, 5–7. ISBN 0-596-10046-9.