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\"Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programminglanguage often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. Python includesmodules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types anddynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls andlibraries, as well as to various windowing systems (X11, Motif, Tk, Macand MFC). Programmers can write new built-in modules for Python in C orC++. Python can be used as an extension language for applications .\"