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Chapter 5 Start Python

Chapter 5 introduces Python, developed by Guido Van Rossum, highlighting its ease of use, expressiveness, and cross-platform capabilities. It outlines the advantages of Python, such as being free and open source, and its applications in various fields, while also noting its disadvantages, including slower performance and fewer libraries compared to other languages. The chapter concludes by describing two modes of working with Python: Interactive Mode and Script Mode.

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Chapter 5 Start Python

Chapter 5 introduces Python, developed by Guido Van Rossum, highlighting its ease of use, expressiveness, and cross-platform capabilities. It outlines the advantages of Python, such as being free and open source, and its applications in various fields, while also noting its disadvantages, including slower performance and fewer libraries compared to other languages. The chapter concludes by describing two modes of working with Python: Interactive Mode and Script Mode.

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Chapter 5 Getting Started With

Python

Introduction
- Python language was developed by Guido Van Rossum.
- Based on two languages
o ABC language
o Modula-3
- Python based on famous BBC comedy show namely Monty Python’s Flying
Circus.

Python pluses
1. Easy to use – Compact and easy to use object-oriented language.
2. Expressive language – fewer lines of code and simpler syntax.
3. Interpreted Language – It makes It easy to debug and suitable to beginners to
advance users.
4. Its completeness – Most of the functionalities available through standard
libraries, like emails, web-pages, databases, Gui development, etc. It follows a
“Battery included” philosophy.
5. Cross – platform language – It can run in windows, Unix, Linux , Macintosh,
smart phones. It is a portable language.
6. Free and Open source – Freely available along with its source code.
7. Varity of usage/applications – Used in variety of applications/fields like
a. Scripting b. Rapid programming c. Web applications d.
Game development.
e. Database applications f. System administrations.

Python Minuses
1. Not the fastest language – Being a interpreter language it is slow than compiler
languages.
2. Lesser libraries than C, Java and Perl – C, Java and Perl are better in libraries
collection
3. Not strong on type binding. – Not strong on Catching Type-mismatch issues. For
example, if we declare a variable as integer but later store as string value in it,
Python will not give any error.

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Chapter 5 Getting Started With
Python

Working With Python


There are two modes to work on Python.
1. Interactive Mode – Work with one command at a time.
2. Script Mode – Create a file and run all the command together.

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