ARCHIVED: About Python

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Python is a free, open source, interpreted programming language available for most operating systems. It is object-oriented, interactive, and easily extensible. Python is often used as a scripting language, but it is fully functional as a general purpose programming language. For more, see Python.

At Indiana University, Python is available on the research supercomputers.