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Source
code

Compiler
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Python uses both but
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interpreted language.
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Command Line Interface

Onine Interpreter
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Ambiguity nearly or completely full of ambiguity
unambiguous
Redundancy less redundant; concise lots of redundancy; verbose
Literalness mean exactly what they full of idiom and metaphor
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