Python Interpreter/Compiler (v3) for Windows 3.1.1

4.7 out of 5 stars 4.7 (38 votes)

(August 16, 2009)

Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Freeware / 5,917 downloads

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. It features modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing. There are interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems (X11, Motif, Tk, Mac, MFC). New built-in modules are easily written in C or C++. Python is also usable as an extension language for applications that need a programmable interface. The Python implementation is portable: it runs on many brands of UNIX, on Windows, OS/2, Mac, Amiga, and many other platforms.

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  1. 2 out of 5 stars
    ssb

    Reviewing 3.0 (Dec 6, 2008)

    Not a machine language compiler, just a bytecode encoder that produce reversable pyc code. Still slow and of course still need an interpreter to execute those files.

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    LRN

    Reviewing 3.0 (Dec 5, 2008)

    This is Python. Period. If you need Python - you download this. Of course there are other Python implementations, but this CPython implementation is mainstream. This is true Python, everything else is a substitute (well, except PyPy).

    Also, this is Free Software (Open Source), not Freeware.

    P.S. Python 3000 rox.

    P.P.S. It comes with both interpreter and compiler. It can interpret your commands on the fly (think bash and other console shells), but it can also compile .py scripts into .pyc Python byte-code modules. Most of the time you shouldn't care about it.

  3. 4 out of 5 stars
    devilrider

    Reviewing 3.0 Beta 2 (Jul 22, 2008)

    Nope.

    Interpret executes directly the source.
    Compiler generates a target program that can be executed.

    You can Interpret a source to see if it works like desired, then compile if happy with it and share that Target Program with the wild. Advantage, no one can steal your source (somtimes).

  4. 3 out of 5 stars
    MikeDiack

    Reviewing 3.0 Alpha 3 (Mar 10, 2008)

    I'm confused - I've not yet tried it, but surely it's a interpreter OR a compiler - aren't the too mutually exclusive?

    (Yes before everyone tells me, I know Java and .net "compile" to byte code)....

    Mike

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  1. Aug 18, 2009 - 3:53 PM
    M^3

    Nice to see someone is still making software for Windows 3.1.1! (LOL)

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