PEP

See also: Pep, pep, pép, and pèp

English

Noun

PEP (countable and uncountable, plural PEPs)

1. (medicine) Initialism of post-exposure prophylaxis.

   Coordinate term: PrEP

2. (UK, finance) Initialism of personal equity plan (a former financial instrument).
3. (UK, countable) Initialism of politically exposed person.
4. (biochemistry) Initialism of phosphoenolpyruvate.
5. (programming, countable) Initialism of Python enhancement proposal.
   • 2018, Cody Jackson, Secret Recipes of the Python Ninja: Over 70 recipes that uncover powerful programming tactics in Python, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 282:

     PEPs are design documents that provide information to the Python community, describing new features (or proposed new features) for Python, its processes, or its environment.

Proper noun

PEP

1. (UK politics, historical) Initialism of Political and Economic Planning, a British policy think tank.

   Coordinate term: PSI

   • 1967, “Researchers find widespread discrimination and prejudice against immigrants to Britain”, in The Observer‎^[1]:

     Come a survey like last week’s PEP report on the extent of race prejudice, and another such wave looks like jogging the Government into introducing legislation dealing with housing and employment.

Further reading

• PEP on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• EPP, PPE