{"id":148380,"date":"2023-10-18T16:46:23","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T20:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=148380"},"modified":"2023-12-21T12:07:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:07:47","slug":"special","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/software-and-programming\/common-languages\/python\/special\/","title":{"rendered":"Python Special Uses"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/software-and-programming\/common-languages\/python\/special\/r-py\/\"><u>R &#038; Python<\/u><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Tips for importing R functionality into Python, and Python functionality into R.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/software-and-programming\/common-languages\/python\/special\/pypy\/\"><u>PyPy<\/u><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pypy.org\/\">PyPy<\/a> is a replacement for CPython. It is built using the RPython language that was co-developed with it. The main reason to use it instead of CPython is speed: it runs generally faster (see next section).<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/software-and-programming\/common-languages\/python\/special\/intel-python\/\"><u>Intel Python<\/u><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intel.com\/content\/www\/us\/en\/developer\/tools\/oneapi\/distribution-for-python.html\">The Intel Distribution for Python<\/a> behaves like regular Python, but leverages Intel technologies to speed up many of the core python libraries.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R &#038; Python Tips for importing R functionality into Python, and Python functionality into R. &nbsp; PyPy PyPy is a replacement for CPython. It is built using the RPython language that was co-developed with it. The main reason to use it instead of CPython is speed: it runs generally faster (see next section). &nbsp; Intel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1692,"featured_media":0,"parent":147403,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148380"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149744,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148380\/revisions\/149744"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}