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This document provides an overview of the Python programming language. It discusses that Python can be used as both a programming and scripting language. It was created in the 1990s by Guido van Rossum and takes its name from the Monty Python comedy group. Python is an interpreted, object-oriented language that is free, portable, and easy to learn. It sees widespread use for tasks like web development, science, and system administration.

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Python Programming Refresher Course: CH - Srilakshmi

This document provides an overview of the Python programming language. It discusses that Python can be used as both a programming and scripting language. It was created in the 1990s by Guido van Rossum and takes its name from the Monty Python comedy group. Python is an interpreted, object-oriented language that is free, portable, and easy to learn. It sees widespread use for tasks like web development, science, and system administration.

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Python Programming Refresher

course
Ch.Srilakshmi
What is Python…?
•Python is a general purpose programming language that is
often applied in scripting roles.
•So,Python is programming language as well as scripting
language.
•Python is also called as Interpreted language
Differences between program and scripting
language
• Program
•a program is executed (i.e. the source is first
compiled, and the result of that compilation is
expected)
•A "program" in general, is a sequence of
instructions written so that a computer can
perform certain task
Cont..
Scripting
•a script is interpreted
•A "script" is code written in a scripting
language. A scripting language is nothing but a
type of programming language in which we can
write code to control
•another software application
History
•Invented in the Netherlands, early 90s by Guido van Rossum
Python was conceived in the late 1980s and its implementation
was started in December 1989
•Guido Van Rossum is fan of ‘Monty Python’s Flying
Circus’, this is a famous TV show in Netherlands
•Named after Monty Python
•Open sourced from the beginning
Guido van Rossum
Why do people use Python…?
•The following primary factors cited by Python
users seem to be these:
• Python is object-oriented
• Structure supports such concepts as polymorphism,
operation overloading, and multiple inheritance.
• Indentation
• Indentation is one of the greatest future in
Python. It's free (open source)
• Downloading and installing Python is free and
easy Source code is easily accessible
Cont..
•It's powerful
- Dynamic typing
- Built-in types and tools
- Library utilities
- Third party utilities (e.g. Numeric, NumPy, SciPy)
-Automatic memory management It's portable
- Python runs virtually every major platform
used today
-As long as you have a compatible Python interpreter installed,
Python programs will run in exactly the same manner, irrespective
of platform.
It's mixable

- Python can be linked to components written in other languages easily


- Linking to fast, compiled code isuseful to computationally
intensive
• problems
- - Python/C integration is quite common
•It's easy to use
- No intermediate compile and link steps as in C/ C++
- Python programs are compiled automatically to an
intermediate form called bytecode, which the interpreter then reads
- This gives Python the development speed of an interpreter
• Without the performance loss inherent in purely interpreted languages
•It's easy to learn
-Structure and syntax are pretty intuitive and easy to grasp
Python features
• No compiling or linking
• Rapid development cycle
• No type declarations
• Simpler, shorter, more flexible
• Automatic memory management
• Garbage collection
• High-level data types and operations
Contd..
• Fast development
• Object-oriented programming
• Code structuring and reuse, C++
• Embedding and extending in C
• Mixed language systems
• Classes, modules, exceptions,multithreading
• “Programming-in-the-large" support
Uses of Python
• Shell tools
– system admin tools, command line programs
• Extension-language work
• Rapid prototyping and development
• Language-based modules
– instead of special-purpose parsers
• Graphical user interfaces
• Database access
• Distributed programming
• Internet scripting
Who Uses Python
•Python is being applied in real revenue-generating
products by real companies. For instance:
•Google makes extensive use of Python in its web
search system, and employs Python’s creator.
•Intel, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Seagate, Qualcomm, and
IBM use Python for hardware testing.
•ESRI uses Python as an end-user
customization tool for its popular GIS mapping products.
•The YouTube video sharing service is largely written
in Python
Development Environments IDE
1. PyDev with Eclipse
2. Komodo
3. Emacs
4. Vim
5. TextMate
6. Gedit
7. Idle
8. PIDA (Linux)(VIM Based)
9.NotePad++ (Windows)
10.Pycharm
Python structure
• Modules: Python source files or C extensions
– import, top-level via from, reload
• Statements
– control flow
– create objects
– indentation matters – instead of {}
• Objects
– everything is an object
– automatically reclaimed when no longer needed
Installing Python
•Python is pre-installed on most Unix systems,
including Linux and MAC OS X

•But for in Windows Operating Systems , user can


download from the
https://www.python.org/downloads/
• - from the above link download latest version of
python IDE and install, recent version is 3.4.1
but most of them uses version 2.7.7 only
After installing the Python
Ver#2.7.7, go to start menu then
click on python 2.7 in that one
you can select python
(command line) it is prompt
with >>>
A Sample Code
•x = 34 - 23
•y = “Hello”
# A comment.
• z = 3.45 # Another one.
Python Code Execution
• Python’s traditional runtime execution model: source code you
type is translated to byte code, which is then run by the
Python Virtual Machine. Your code is automatically compiled,
but then it is interpreted.

Source code extension is .py


Byte code extension is .pyc (compiled python
code)
Running Python
• Once you're inside the Python interpreter, type in commands at will.
• Examples:
• >>> print 'Hello world'
• Hello world
• # Relevant output is displayed on subsequent lines without the >>>
• symbol
• >>> x = [0,1,2]
• # Quantities stored in memory are not displayed by default
• >>> x
• # If a quantity is stored in memory, typing its name will display it [0,1,2]
• >>> 2+3
•5
Thank You

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