Features of Python Programming
• Python provides many useful features which
make it popular and valuable from the other
programming languages.
• It supports object-oriented programming,
procedural programming approaches and
provides dynamic memory allocation.
• The following are various features of Python that make it so powerful and
popular:
1. Easy to Learn and Use
2. Expressive Language
3. Interpreted Language
4. Cross-platform Language
5. Free and Open Source
6. Object-Oriented Language
7. Extensible
8. Large Standard Library
9. GUI Programming Support
10. Integrated
11. Embeddable
12. Dynamic Memory Allocation
13. Dynamically Typed
14. Databases
15. Interactive Mode
1. Easy to Learn and Use
• Python is easy to learn as compared to other
programming languages.
• Its syntax is straightforward and much the same
as the English language.
• There is no use of the semicolon or curly-
bracket, the indentation defines the code block.
• It is the recommended programming language
for beginners.
2. Expressive Language
• Python can perform complex tasks using a few
lines of code.
• A simple example, the hello world program
you simply type print("Hello World").
• It will take only one line to execute, while Java
or C takes multiple lines.
3. Interpreted Language
• Python is an interpreted language; it means
the Python program is executed one line at a
time.
• The advantage of being interpreted language,
it makes debugging easy and portable.
4. Cross-platform Language
• Python can run equally on different platforms
such as Windows, Linux, UNIX, and Macintosh,
etc.
• So, we can say that Python is a portable
language.
• It enables programmers to develop the
software for several competing platforms by
writing a program only once.
5. Free and Open Source
• Python is freely available for everyone. It is freely
available on its official website www.python.org.
• It has a large community across the world that is
dedicatedly working towards make new python
modules and functions.
• Anyone can contribute to the Python community.
• The open-source means, "Anyone can download
its source code without paying any amount."
6. Object-Oriented Language
• Python supports object-oriented language and
concepts of classes and objects come into
existence.
• It supports inheritance, polymorphism, and
encapsulation, etc.
• The object-oriented procedure helps to
programmer to write reusable code and
develop applications in less code.
7. Extensible
• It implies that other languages such as C/C++
can be used to compile the code and thus it
can be used further in our Python code.
• It converts the program into byte code, and
any platform can use that byte code.
8. Large Standard Library
• It provides a vast range of libraries for the
various fields such as machine learning, web
developer, and also for the scripting.
• There are various machine learning libraries,
such as Tensor flow, Pandas, Numpy, Keras, and
Pytorch, etc.
• Django, flask, pyramids are the popular
framework for Python web development.
9. GUI Programming Support
• Graphical User Interface is used for the
developing Desktop application.
• PyQT5, Tkinter, Kivy are the libraries which are
used for developing the web application.
10. Integrated
• It can be easily integrated with languages like
C, C++, and JAVA, etc. Python runs code line by
line like C,C++ Java. It makes easy to debug the
code.
11. Embeddable
• The code of the other programming language
can use in the Python source code.
• We can use Python source code in another
programming language as well.
• It can embed other language into our code.
12. Dynamic Memory Allocation
• In Python, we don't need to specify the data-
type of the variable.
• When we assign some value to the variable, it
automatically allocates the memory to the
variable at run time.
• Suppose we are assigned integer value 15
to x, then we don't need to write
int x = 15. Just write x = 15.
13. Dynamically Typed
• Python is dynamically-typed. This means that
the type for a value is decided at runtime, not
in advance.
• This is why we don’t need to specify the type
of data while declaring it.
14. Databases
• Python provides interfaces to all major
commercial databases
15. Interactive Mode
• Python has support for an interactive mode
which allows interactive testing and debugging
of snippets of code.
