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007 Python Introduction

Python was created by Guido Van Rossum. It is an object oriented language that is high level, interpreted and cross-platform. Python is free and open source meaning it can be used and modified without cost. Interactive mode allows executing commands one by one while script mode allows saving multiple commands in a file to execute as a program.

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007 Python Introduction

Python was created by Guido Van Rossum. It is an object oriented language that is high level, interpreted and cross-platform. Python is free and open source meaning it can be used and modified without cost. Interactive mode allows executing commands one by one while script mode allows saving multiple commands in a file to execute as a program.

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Name derived from famous

BBC comedy show namely


Monty Python’s flying circus
 Python was created by Guido Van Rossum
 The language was released in February I991
 Python got its name from a BBC comedy series from
seventies- “Monty Python‟s Flying Circus”
 Python can be used to follow both Procedural approach
and Object Oriented approach of programming
 It is free to use
 Python is based on or influenced with two
programming languages:
 ABC language [replacement of BASIC]
 Modula-3
 Easy to use Object oriented language
 Expressive language
 Interpreted Language
 Its completeness
 Cross-platform Language
 Fee and Open source
 Variety of Usage / Applications
• Python is compact and very easy to use object oriented
language with very simple syntax rules. It is very high
level language and thus very-very programmer -friendly

• More capable to express code‟s purpose than many


othr language like – swapping of two numbers:

In C++ In Python
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tmp=a; a,b=b,a
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• It is interpreted not compiled, thus executes code line by line
and it makes python easy-to-debug and suitable for
beginners and advanced users

• When you install Python, you get everything i.e. you don‟t
need to install additional libraries. All functionality is
available with Python additional library. Features like web-
pages, database connectivity, GUI features are available in
Python standard library. Python follows – “Battery included”
philosophy
• Python can run equally well on variety of platforms – Windows,
Linux/UNIX, Macintosh, supercomputers, smart phones. Python is
portable language.

• It is feely available i.e. without any cost can be


downloaded from www.python.org.
• It is also open source i.e. you can modify, improve/extend
an open-source software
• Python is being used in many
diverse fields/applications, some of
which are:
•Scripting
•Web Applications
•Game Development
•System Administrations
•Rapid Prototyping
•GUI Programs
•Database Applications
 Not the fastest language
 Lesser Libraries than C, Java, Perl
 Not Strong on Type-binding
 Not Easily convertible
• Because of its interpreted nature Python is not fast as
compare to compiled language. Python is first compiled into
an internal byte-code which is then executed by Python
interpreter.

• Python offers library support for almost all computing


programs, but its library is still not competent with
languages like C, java as they have larger collection
available.
• Python is not very strong on data type checking i.e. “Type-
mismatch” issues. For example if you declare variable as
integer but later store a string value in it, Python will not
raise any error.

• Because of its lack of syntax, Python is easy to program but


it becomes disadvantage when it comes to translate
python program to another language.
Before we start working on Python we need to install Python in
our computer. There are multiple distributions available today:

 Default Installation available from www.python.org is called


Cpython installation and comes with python interpreter, Python
IDLE(Python GUI) and Pip(package installer)
 ANACONDA Python distribution is one such highly
recommended distribution that comes with preloaded many
packages and libraries(NumPy, SciPy, Panda etc)
 Other Popular IDEs like Sypder, PytCharm, etc. Spyder IDE
is
available as a part of ANACONDA.
After Python installation we can start working with python.
In Python we can work in 2 ways:

Interactive Mode
(Immediat
Python e Mode)
working
Ways
Script
Mode
The default installation of CPython comes with
Interpreter, Python IDLE and pip(package installer). To work in
Python
either interactive mode or script we need to open Python
IDLE
To work in interactive mode, follow the process given
below:
(i) Click start button  All Programs  Python 3.6.x
IDLE Or
Click start button  All Programs  Python 3.6.x
Python
(command
line)
 Interactive modes – one command at a time
 Python executes the given command and gives the output.
 In interactive mode we type command at IDLE prompt ( >>>
)
 For
>>> e.g20
if +
you type 20 + 30(command
in from ofgive
IDLEby
prompt
user)
30 (output given by
50 the above examplepython)
 From you can see than at >>> we
have to just give the command to execute and python we
execute it if it is error free otherwise gives an error.
(
)
( ) )
( )
(

)
print (“Hello”)
 Script Mode – multiple commands can be saved in a file as
a
program and then we can execute the entire program
 we type Python program in a file and then use the interpreter
to execute the content from the file.
 Working in interactive mode is convenient for beginners and for
testing small pieces of code, as we can test them immediately.
But for coding more than few lines, we should always save our
code so that we may modify and reuse the code
 In Python IDLE :
 Click File  New
 In new window type the commands you want to save in
program
 For example:
 print(“Hello World!”)

 FileSave to save file. Give extension .py to execute it


as python script
Save the
program
and
press F5
( )
To print or display output Python 3.x provides print()
function. Examples:-
print(“Welcome to Python”)
it will print Welcome to Python
print(„Python rocks!‟)
it will print Python rocks!
Note: Python allows both single quotation and double
quotation to enclose string. In any case both opening and
closing must be same.
print(„Look carefully”)
it will give error because both opening and
closing quotes are different.
Note
: In Python 2.x print is a statement, not a function
1)
2)Python is case-sensitive i.e. it will treat small letter
and capital letter as two different entities like m &
M will be treated differently in Python.
3)We can use up arrow (↑) and down arrow (↓) to
select previous command and press enter to recall and
execute.
4)print statement is required only while working with
script mode otherwise in interactive mode values can
be printed without print statement
(a) (b)
“SayonaraF
(c) „Sayonara‟
“Sayonara‟ (d)
(e) „SayonaraF
{Sayonara}
• Who developed Python Programming Language?
• Is Python Object Oriented Language?
• Python is a high level interpreted language. What does it
means
• What does cross-platform means?
• Python is free and open source. What do you understand
by this feature?
• What is the difference in interactive mode and Script mode
in Python?

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