Python: The Documentary

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  1. CPython

    The Python programming language

    Also, you say "temporary variable" but it's no more temporary than any other local variable, because lexical scoping is evidently for children

    I have always hated that comprehension variables leak for that same reason

    1: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/v3.13.7/Grammar/pytho...

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  3. pip

    The Python package installer

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