Sunday, September 28, 2014

7 Cool Python Implementations For Your Knowledge

1.ActivePython

ActivePython is a CPython distribution by ActiveState for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. Since version 2.6.3.7, ActivePython comes with PyPM (cross-platform Python Package Manager) that is used to install binary Python packages. ActivePython also includes PyWin32 and several other documentation/tutorials for Python.

2.CPython

CPython is the default, most-widely used implementation of the Python programming language. It is written in C. In addition to CPython, there are other "production-quality" Python implementations: Jython, written in Java, PyPy, and IronPython, which is written for the Common Language Infrastructure.

3.Cython

The Cython programming language is a superset of Python with a foreign function interface for invoking C/C++ routines and the ability to declare the static type of subroutine parameters and results, local variables, and class attributes. It actually is a Python to C source code translator that integrates with the CPython interpreter on a low-level.

4.IronPython

IronPython is an implementation of the Python programming language targeting the .NET Framework and Mono. IronPython is written entirely in C#, although some of its code is automatically generated by a code generator written in Python. IronPython is implemented on top of the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR), a library running on top of the Common Language Infrastructure that provides dynamic typing and dynamic method dispatch, among other things, for dynamic languages.

5.Jython

Jython, successor of JPython, is an implementation of the Python programming language written in Java. Jython programs can import and use any Java class. Except for some standard modules, Jython programs use Java classes instead of Python modules. Jython includes almost all of the modules in the standard Python programming language distribution, lacking only some of the modules implemented originally in C. 

6.Parrot virtual machine

Parrot is a register-based process virtual machine designed to run dynamic languages efficiently. It is possible to compile Parrot assembly language and PIR (an intermediate language) to Parrot bytecode and execute it. Parrot is free and open source software.

7.Stackless Python

Stackless Python, or Stackless, is a Python programming language interpreter, so named because it avoids depending on the C call stack for its own stack. The most prominent feature of Stackless is microthreads, which avoid much of the overhead associated with usual operating system threads. In addition to Python features, Stackless also adds support for coroutines, communication channels and task serialisation. 

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