Python for decision makers and business leaders Transcripts
Chapter: What is Python?
Lecture: Open source and Python
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No conversation about what is Python would be complete
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without mentioning that it is open source.
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I'm sure you've heard of open source.
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It's a trend in the software development space where
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the code is available and, typically
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it can be taken and adapted without permission
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without asking somebody, Hey
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can I make this change?
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or, I saw there's this problem.
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Could you please change your code because
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we wanted to do something else?
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No, you could just go over here
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press this fork button
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and you are now the proud owner of
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a fully-functional version of Python
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and you could go do whatever you want
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rename it, make changes to it, and so on.
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Typically, we don't want to do that because
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we want to stay part of the community.
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We want all the changes everyone else is making
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to just come back into the thing that we're working on
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and make it so much better.
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open source is really important these days
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and Python has been open source from the beginning.
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You can get it right here on github.com/python.
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That's the organization.
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There's a handful of things there
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and then /python is actually the main Python runtime
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the library and the language that we talked about earlier.
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So Python, open source, really amazing.
