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Python Scripting

The document discusses Python, an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, and high-level programming language created by Guido van Rossum between 1985-1990. It notes that Python source code is available under the GNU General Public License. The document then provides details on Python's interpreted, interactive, object-oriented nature and its suitability for beginners. It lists some key features of Python including being easy to learn and read, portable, extensible, and supporting databases and GUI programming.

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Python Scripting

The document discusses Python, an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, and high-level programming language created by Guido van Rossum between 1985-1990. It notes that Python source code is available under the GNU General Public License. The document then provides details on Python's interpreted, interactive, object-oriented nature and its suitability for beginners. It lists some key features of Python including being easy to learn and read, portable, extensible, and supporting databases and GUI programming.

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Python is a general-purpose interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, and high-level

programming language. It was created by Guido van Rossum during 1985- 1990. Like Perl, Python
source code is also available under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Python is a high-level, interpreted, interactive and object-oriented scripting language. Python is designed
to be highly readable. It uses English keywords frequently where as other languages use punctuation, and
it has fewer syntactical constructions than other languages.

 Python is Interpreted − Python is processed at runtime by the interpreter. You do not


need to compile your program before executing it. This is similar to PERL and PHP.
 Python is Interactive − You can actually sit at a Python prompt and interact with the
interpreter directly to write your programs.
 Python is Object-Oriented − Python supports Object-Oriented style or technique of
programming that encapsulates code within objects.
 Python is a Beginner's Language − Python is a great language for the beginner-level
programmers and supports the development of a wide range of applications from
simple text processing to WWW browsers to games.

Python Features
Python's features include −

 Easy-to-learn − Python has few keywords, simple structure, and a clearly defined
syntax. This allows the student to pick up the language quickly.
 Easy-to-read − Python code is more clearly defined and visible to the eyes.
 Easy-to-maintain − Python's source code is fairly easy-to-maintain.
 A broad standard library − Python's bulk of the library is very portable and cross-
platform compatible on UNIX, Windows, and Macintosh.
 Interactive Mode − Python has support for an interactive mode which allows
interactive testing and debugging of snippets of code.
 Portable − Python can run on a wide variety of hardware platforms and has the same
interface on all platforms.
 Extendable − You can add low-level modules to the Python interpreter. These modules
enable programmers to add to or customize their tools to be more efficient.
 Databases − Python provides interfaces to all major commercial databases.
 GUI Programming − Python supports GUI applications that can be created and ported
to many system calls, libraries and windows systems, such as Windows MFC, Macintosh,
and the X Window system of Unix.
 Scalable − Python provides a better structure and support for large programs than shell
scripting.

Python has a big list of good features, few are listed below −

 It supports functional and structured programming methods as well as OOP.


 It can be used as a scripting language or can be compiled to byte-code for building large
applications.
 It provides very high-level dynamic data types and supports dynamic type checking.
 IT supports automatic garbage collection.
 It can be easily integrated with C, C++, COM, ActiveX, CORBA, and Java.

Python is available on a wide variety of platforms including Linux and Mac OS X. Let's understand how to
set up our Python environment.

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