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Albert Vonpupp wrote:

> Hello pythonistas,
> 
> I'm new to python and so far I'm really enjoying learning it.
> 
> I would like to know what are the top 10 most important features (on your
> opinion) in python.
> 
> I have to prepare a presentation on that and this is a very good chance to
> learn something new to me as well.

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...