Python is an object-oriented, strictly, dynamically typed, lexically scoped  *(programming language). Its object model is quite flexible (single-dispatch, metaclasses, everything is an object), and somewhat similar to that of _(Smalltalk). Python has some functional programming features: first-class functions, map(), reduce(), list comprehensions; but does not have true lexical closures. Python is a very "free-form" language with very few ways of invariant construction.
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