Noun
PEP (countable and uncountable, plural PEPs)
- (medicine) Initialism of post-exposure prophylaxis.
- Coordinate term: PrEP
- (UK, finance) Initialism of personal equity plan (a former financial instrument).
- (UK, countable) Initialism of politically exposed person.
- (biochemistry) Initialism of phosphoenolpyruvate.
- (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
- (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: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.