I'm a Python newbie and already found a few things that I love about the language. Among them:
- list/set comprehensions - dictionaries and sets - pickle/shelve // joseph w. clark , phd , visiting research associate \\ university of nebraska at omaha - college of IS&T ---------------------------------------- > Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:21:45 +1100 > Subject: Re: Top 10 python features > From: ros...@gmail.com > To: python-list@python.org > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > > Albert Vonpupp wrote: > > > >> I would like to know what are the top 10 most important features (on your > >> opinion) in python. > > > > Amongst our weapons are > > > > - Generators > > - Duck-Typing > > - The Interactive Interpreter > > > > and an almost fanatical devotion to the Zen. > > > > Wait, I forgot dictionaries; it's dictionaries all the way down... > > That's five. Here's five more: > > * No variable declarations - keep your code simple > * An *extensive* standard library > * comp.lang.python / python-list, Python help 24/7! > * Active development and constant improvements > * Strong OS/platform support (many Linuxes have at least some version > of Python either already installed or in the standard repository; > Windows and Mac OS have ready-to-go binaries available on python.org; > there are Pythons for various mobile platforms; even relative > obscurities like OS/2 have their ports) > > Hmm. Side point regarding OS/2: I notice that > http://www.python.org/getit/other/ points to a port of 2.4.4, but Paul > Smedley has a port of 2.7.2: > http://smedley.id.au/os2ports_new/index.php?page=python - what's the > appropriate way to get that mentioned? > > ChrisA > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
