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Re: Top 10 python features

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Date 2013-03-18 01:21 +1100
Subject Re: Top 10 python features
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.3389.1363530108.2939.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> wrote:
> Albert Vonpupp wrote:
>
>> I would like to know what are the top 10 most important features (on your
>> opinion) in python.
>
> 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...

That's five. Here's five more:

* No variable declarations - keep your code simple
* An *extensive* standard library
* comp.lang.python / python-list, Python help 24/7!
* Active development and constant improvements
* Strong OS/platform support (many Linuxes have at least some version
of Python either already installed or in the standard repository;
Windows and Mac OS have ready-to-go binaries available on python.org;
there are Pythons for various mobile platforms; even relative
obscurities like OS/2 have their ports)

Hmm. Side point regarding OS/2: I notice that
http://www.python.org/getit/other/ points to a port of 2.4.4, but Paul
Smedley has a port of 2.7.2:
http://smedley.id.au/os2ports_new/index.php?page=python - what's the
appropriate way to get that mentioned?

ChrisA

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Top 10 python features Albert Vonpupp <vonpupp@gmail.com> - 2013-03-17 06:18 -0700
  Re: Top 10 python features Miki Tebeka <miki.tebeka@gmail.com> - 2013-03-17 07:00 -0700
    Re: Top 10 python features Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-03-17 20:26 -0400
  Re: Top 10 python features Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-03-17 15:09 +0100
  Re: Top 10 python features Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-03-18 01:21 +1100
  RE: Top 10 python features Joseph Clark <joeclark77@hotmail.com> - 2013-03-17 10:49 -0700
  Re: Top 10 python features Albert Vonpupp <vonpupp@gmail.com> - 2013-03-20 15:55 -0700
    Re: Top 10 python features Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-03-20 23:48 +0000

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