What Is Python ?
Python is a high-level general purpose programming language. As code is automatically compiled to byte code and executed, Python is suitable as a scripting language, Web application implementation language, etc.
Python can be extended in C and C++, Python can provide the speed needed for even compute intensive tasks.
Some Important Features of Python:
- Python is built-in high level data types like strings, lists, dictionaries, etc.
- Python has usual control structures like if, if-else, if-elif-else, while, plus a powerful collection iterator (for).
- It has multiple levels of organizational structure: functions, classes, modules, and packages which assist in organizing code.
- Compile on the fly to byte code where source code is compiled to byte code without a separate compile step.
- Source code modules can also be “pre-compiled” to byte code files.
- Extensions in C and C++ — Extension modules and extension types can be written by hand or tools.
