Python vs Cpython
What's all this fuss about Python and CPython (Jython,IronPython), I don't get it:
python.org mentions that CPython is:
The "traditional" implementation of Python (nicknamed CPython)
yet another Stack Overflow question mentions that:
CPython is the default byte-code interpreter of Python, which is written in C.
Honestly I don't get what both of those explanations practically mean but what I thought was that, if I use CPython does that mean when I run a sample python code, it compiles it to C language and then executes it as if it were C code
So what exactly is CPython and how does it differ when compared with python and should I probably use CPython over Python and if so what are its advantages?
So what is CPython?
CPython is the original Python implementation. It is the implementation you download from Python.org. People call it CPython to distinguish it from other, later, Python implementations, and to distinguish the implementation of the language engine from the Python programming language itself.
The latter part is where your confusion comes from; you need to keep Python-the-language separate from whatever runs the Python code.
CPython happens to be implemented in C. That is just an implementation detail, really. CPython compiles your Python code into bytecode (transparently) and interprets that bytecode in a evaluation loop.
CPython is also the first to implement new features; Python-the-language development uses CPython as the base; other implementations follow.
What about Jython, etc.?
Jython, IronPython and PyPy are the current "other" implementations of the Python programming language; these are implemented in Java, C# and RPython (a subset of Python), respectively. Jython compiles your Python code to Java bytecode, so your Python code can run on the JVM. IronPython lets you run Python on the Microsoft CLR. And PyPy, being implemented in (a subset of) Python, lets you run Python code faster than CPython, which rightly should blow your mind. :-)
Actually compiling to C
So CPython does not translate your Python code to C by itself. It instead runs a interpreter loop. There is a project that does translate Python-ish code to C, and that is called Cython. Cython adds a few extensions to the Python language, and lets you compile your code to C extensions, code that plugs into the CPython interpreter.
You need to distinguish between a language and an implementation. Python is a language,
According to Wikipedia, "A programming language is a notation for writing programs, which are specifications of a computation or algorithm". This means that it's simply the rules and syntax for writing code. Separately we have a programming language implementation which in most cases, is the actual interpreter or compiler.
Python is a language. CPython is the implementation of Python in C. Jython is the implementation in Java, and so on.
To sum up: You are already using CPython (if you downloaded from here).
This article thoroughly explains the difference between different implementations of Python. Like the article puts it:
The first thing to realize is that 'Python' is an interface. There's a specification of what Python should do and how it should behave (as with any interface). And there are multiple implementations (as with any interface).
The second thing to realize is that 'interpreted' and 'compiled' are properties of an implementation, not an interface.
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