Python Programming - Features

Python features

Easy to learn: Python has few keywords, simple structure, and clearly defined syntax. This allows the learner to pick up the language quickly.

Easy to read: Python code is more clearly defined and visible to the eyes

Easy to maintain: Python code is fairly easy to maintain.

Broad standard library: Python has huge standard libraries, modules, which is portable and cross-platform compatible on Linux, Windows, Mac and Unix.

Interactive mode: Python has support for an interactive mode which allows interactive testing and debugging of snippets of code.

Portable: Python can run on a wide variety of hardware platforms and has the same interface on all platforms.

Extendable: It is possible to add low-level modules to the python interpreter. These modules enable programmers to add to or customize their tools to be more efficient.

Databases: Python provides interfaces to all major commercial databases.

GUI Programming: Python supports GUI applications that can be created and ported to many system calls, libraries and windows systems, such as windows MFC, Mac, X windows systems of Unix.

Scalable: Python provides better structure and support for large programs than shell scripting.

Python supports functional, structured programming and Object Oriented Programming.

It can be used as scripting language or compiled to bytecode for building large applications.

Provides very high level dynamic data types and supports dynamic type checking.

Supports automatic Garbage Collection.

Python can be integrated with C, C++, COM, ActiveX, CORBA and Java.