Python Features

 

Q What are the Python Features?

Python is a  object  oriented programming language. Python's features include-

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

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

 ·         Easy-to-maintain: Python's source code is fairly easy-to-maintain.

  ·         A broad standard library: Python's bulk of the library is very portable and cross- platform compatible on UNIX, Windows, and Macintosh.

  ·         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: 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. A few are listed below-

·         It supports 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.

 ·         It provides very high-level dynamic data types and supports dynamic type checking.

 

·         It supports automatic garbage collection.

 

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