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+title: "Python"
+category: "Languages and runtimes"
+tagline: "The general-purpose scripting language, with pip and a set of common libraries."
+source: "pacman"
+package: "python-pip"
+command: "python"
+website: "https://www.python.org/"
+code: "https://github.com/python/cpython"
+links:
+  - name: "pip documentation"
+    url: "https://pip.pypa.io/"
+---
+
+## What it is
+
+Python is a programming language known for readable code and a large standard library. It's used for scripts and automation, web services, data analysis and machine learning. pip is its package installer: it fetches libraries from the Python Package Index (PyPI).
+
+## Why it's here
+
+- **Readable and quick to write.** A good first language and a good tool for small jobs.
+- **Libraries for everything.** PyPI has packages for almost any task.
+- **Many tools need it.** A lot of Linux software is written in Python.
+
+## On CoreDesktop
+
+Python itself comes with Arch. CoreDesktop adds pip from pacman, along with Python libraries packaged by Arch: Pillow for images, PyGObject for GNOME apps, Pygments for syntax highlighting, and docutils and MyST-Parser for documentation. `update` keeps them current with the rest of the pacman packages.
+
+Arch doesn't let pip install into the system Python, so install libraries into a virtual environment for each project, use [uv](/software/uv/), or install Python apps with [pipx](/software/pipx/).
+
+```
+python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate && pip install requests
+```