Importance of Python Programming

Importance of Python Programming:

Python is a high-level, interpreted, interactive and object-oriented scripting language. Python was designed to be highly readable which uses English keywords frequently whereas other languages use punctuation and it has fewer syntactical constructions than other languages.

 

Python is Interpreted - It means that it is processed at runtime by the interpreter and you do not need to compile your program before executing it. 

 

Python is Interactive - It means that you can actually sit at a Python prompt and interact with the interpreter directly to write your programs.

 

Python is Object-Oriented - It means that Python supports Object-Oriented style or technique of programming that encapsulates code within objects.
 

Python is Beginner's Language - Python is a great language for the beginner programmers and supports the development of a wide range of applications from simple text processing to www browsers to games.

 

Easy-to-maintain - Python's success is that its source code is fairly easy-to-maintain.

 

A Broad Standard Library - One of Python's greatest strengths is the bulk of the library is very portable and cross-platform compatible on UNIX, Windows and Macintosh.

 

Interactive Mode - Support for an interactive mode in which you can enter results from a terminal right to the language, allowing 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 - You can 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, Macintosh and the X Window system of Unix.
 

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

Apart from the above-mentioned features, Python has a big list of good features, few of them are-
 

- Support for functional and structured programming methods as well as OOP.

- It can be used as a scripting language or can be compiled to byte-code for building large applications.

- Very high-level dynamic data types and supports dynamic type checking.

- Supports automatic garbage collection.

- It can be easily integrated with C, C++, COM, ActiveX, CORBA and Java.