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Introduction to Programming with Python
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What is Python ?
Object Oriented , High Level Programming Language.
Multiple Programming paradigms.
Fully dynamic type system and Automatic memory management.
Often used as a scripting language.
About Python
Appeared in 1991.
Designed by Guido van Rossum.
Developed under Python software Foundation.
Influenced by C , C++, Dylan, Haskell, Icon, Java, Lisp, Modula-3, Perl.
Usual filename extensions are .py, .pyw, .pyc, .pyo, .pyd
Powerful Properties
Show only Useful error messages
Automatic memory handling
Independent of operating system
Works on both Unix and Windows
Even file system code can be made os-independent
Large library of standard modules
Handle third-party modules
Integration with external C code
Well documented
Python Installation
Download Python from www.python.org
Any version you can download
Recommended version: 2.1.1 or 2.2
Avoid 1.6/1.6.1 if you can
Two variations: IDLE (GUI),python (command line).
Interactive Development Level Environment (IDE) for Python