Top 10 python features

[Albert Vonpupp]

Hello pythonistas,

I'm new to python and so far I'm really enjoying learning it.

I would like to know what are the top 10 most important features (on your opinion) in python.

I have to prepare a presentation on that and this is a very good chance to learn something new to me as well.

Thanks a lot!

 

[Miki Tebeka]

I would like to know what are the top 10 most important features (on your opinion) in python.
You're in luck Raymond Hettinger just gave "Python is Awesome" keynote at PyCon. You can view the slides at https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides/pycon-keynote-python-is-awesome, video will follow - not sure when.

 

[Peter Otten]

Hello pythonistas,

I'm new to python and so far I'm really enjoying learning it.

I would like to know what are the top 10 most important features (on your
opinion) in python.

I have to prepare a presentation on that and this is a very good chance to
learn something new to me as well.

Amongst our weapons are

- Generators
- Duck-Typing
- The Interactive Interpreter

and an almost fanatical devotion to the Zen.

Wait, I forgot dictionaries; it's dictionaries all the way down...

 

[Chris Angelico]

Amongst our weapons are

- Generators
- Duck-Typing
- The Interactive Interpreter

and an almost fanatical devotion to the Zen.

Wait, I forgot dictionaries; it's dictionaries all the way down...

That's five. Here's five more:

* No variable declarations - keep your code simple
* An *extensive* standard library
* comp.lang.python / python-list, Python help 24/7!
* Active development and constant improvements
* Strong OS/platform support (many Linuxes have at least some version
of Python either already installed or in the standard repository;
Windows and Mac OS have ready-to-go binaries available on python.org;
there are Pythons for various mobile platforms; even relative
obscurities like OS/2 have their ports)

Hmm. Side point regarding OS/2: I notice that
http://www.python.org/getit/other/ points to a port of 2.4.4, but Paul
Smedley has a port of 2.7.2:
http://smedley.id.au/os2ports_new/index.php?page=python - what's the
appropriate way to get that mentioned?

ChrisA

 

[Joseph Clark]

I'm a Python newbie and already found a few things that I love about the language.
Among them:

- list/set comprehensions
- dictionaries and sets
- pickle/shelve

// joseph w. clark , phd , visiting research associate
\\ university of nebraska at omaha - college of IS&T
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[Terry Reedy]

You're in luck Raymond Hettinger just gave "Python is Awesome"
keynote at PyCon. You can view the slides at
https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides/pycon-keynote-python-is-awesome,
video will follow - not sure when.

The full url works better ;-).
https://speakerdeck.com/pyconslides/pycon-keynote-python-is-awesome-by-raymond-hettinger

I am part way through and recommend it.

 

[Albert Vonpupp]

Hello pythonistas,



I'm new to python and so far I'm really enjoying learning it.



I would like to know what are the top 10 most important features (on your opinion) in python.



I have to prepare a presentation on that and this is a very good chance to learn something new to me as well.



Thanks a lot!

I want to thank you all for your responses!

Regards!

 

[Mark Lawrence]

I want to thank you all for your responses!

Regards!

Thanks for the thanks.

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