Python is a freeware portable object oriented language that is very powerfull.

It compiles the source code into byte-code and runs it in a virtual machine.

Python was created by Guido van Rossum.

You can find whatever you want about Python at the official site:

http://www.python.org/

You can get the sources of Python, or specific binaries distributions

(for unix, Windows, Macintosh, OS2...)

You can get the Python reference manuals (a Tutorial, Language Reference,

Library Reference and Extending Reference).

There are several books:

- Mark Lutz, Programming Python, O'Reilly and Associates, 1996.

- Guido van Rossum, and James C. Ahlstrom, Internet Programming with Python,

M&T Books (MIS Press/Henry Holt and Co.), Fall, 1996.