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killexe
killexe

Reputation: 466

Python interpreter version on windows

I am getting confused with all the different Python-interpreters (CPython, PyPy, etc.). Does anyone know what python-interpreter is used for the standard-python on Windows? I can't find it on Official Python Website and when I type py --version in the command prompt it just tells me the python version (which is 3.6.0). Any help would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1020

Answers (3)

Uriel
Uriel

Reputation: 16184

The most common interpreter, which you downloaded from https://www.python.org/, is CPython. However, this interpreter is no standard; just commonly used. Python as a language is defined by the syntax, not interpreter.

Upvotes: 2

Haifeng Zhang
Haifeng Zhang

Reputation: 31895

Based on the website link(python.org) you provided, if you install downloaded python from it, the interpreter is CPython, it is the most widely used implementation of python.

On windows machine, the python interpreter is usually installed in C:\Python36, you can check it on the python shell by:

sys.executable A string giving the absolute path of the executable binary for the Python interpreter, on systems where this makes sense. If Python is unable to retrieve the real path to its executable, sys.executable will be an empty string or None.

import sys

print(sys.executable)

In my case, it returns /Users/hzhang/.virtualenvs/env-3.5/bin/python

Upvotes: 2

BrenBarn
BrenBarn

Reputation: 251363

What you get from python.org is CPython.

You can also see the implementation from within Python by doing import platform and then platform.python_implementation(). So you could get it from the command line with:

py -c "import platform; print(platform.python_implementation())"

Upvotes: 2

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