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B

BDFL: Stands for Benevolent Dictator For Life. Guido van Rossum is the BDFL of Python.

C

C: A popular programming language developed by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Labs in 1972.

CPython: The original Python implementation written in C.

G

Guido van Rossum: A Dutch computer programmer who's best know for creating the Python programming language.

H

IDLE: Stands for Integrated Development Environment. It comes bundled with a CPython installation by default.

J

Jython: A python implementation written in Java. Python code can be compiled to Java bytecode and it can easily interact with Java code and libraries.

K

Keyword Argument: An argument that doesn't follow a special, predefined order and is defined with a keyword.

P

Positional Argument: An argument that follows a special, predefined order that isn't defined with a keyword.

Pythonic: Something that follows the idioms of Python.

U

Unpythonic: Something that doesn't follow or goes against the idioms of Python.

Z

Resource type: this resource is a glossary.

Completion status: this resource is a stub, which means that pretty much nothing has been done yet.

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