python2

An interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language

Python 2 is an old version of the language that is incompatible with the 3.x line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed considerably, and a lot of deprecated features have finally been removed in the 3.x line. Note that documentation for Python 2 is provided in the python2-docs package. This package provides the "python2" executable; most of the actual implementation is within the "python2-libs" package. For the unversioned "python" executable, see manual page "unversioned-python".

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