Python is the best and most popular general purpose scripting language; the universal scripting language

[Andrew Dalke]

John Roth
> > Python is a scripting language because each module
> > is executed from the top down as its loaded.

Michael Geary
> By that definition, these would be scripting languages:

Actually, by that definition Python isn't a scripting language.
A Python program is fully parsed and converted to byte code
before anything in it is executed.

                    Andrew
                    dalke at dalkescientific.com