What are some features of the python programming language?

Answer 1

Here are some of the features I like:

• Fairly simple, and easy to learn, compared with other languages.
• Supported on many platforms.
• The language in general requires less statements to achieve something than many other languages.
• The scope of a for, while, if, etc. is defined by indentation. That is, no special symbols are used to indicate the end of such a block. This also means you must indent correctly.
• A procedure can return more than one value, like this:
  • In the procedure: return a, b
  • Calling the procedure: x, y = myprocedure(...)
  • I guess that technically, the procedure returns a single item (a list), but the language syntax makes it easy to assign the parts of this list to more than one variable.
• Built-in support for complex numbers.
• Built-in support for numbers of an arbitrary size.

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Versatile

Flexible

Cross-platform and Open Source

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Answer 2

There are many characteristics of Python but I will only name a few. Python is an entirely object oriented programming language, which means that all the variable types are objects. There are no primitive types such as integers found in Java or C. In addition, python contains more complex built-in types such as lists and dictionaries, which are not found in other languages. Furthermore, Python is a high-level programming language. That means that Python code looks more similar to English than other languages, and also means that Python can be written more quickly than other lower level languages. Python has duck typing, where variables are not bound to the type of object that it is originally set as. Python automatically checks the type of variable and changes the variable type accordingly.

Answer 3

Here are some of the features I like:

• Fairly simple, and easy to learn, compared with other languages.
• Supported on many platforms.
• The language in general requires less statements to achieve something than many other languages.
• The scope of a for, while, if, etc. is defined by indentation. That is, no special symbols are used to indicate the end of such a block. This also means you must indent correctly.
• A procedure can return more than one value, like this:
  • In the procedure: return a, b
  • Calling the procedure: x, y = myprocedure(...)
  • I guess that technically, the procedure returns a single item (a list), but the language syntax makes it easy to assign the parts of this list to more than one variable.
• Built-in support for complex numbers.
• Built-in support for numbers of an arbitrary size.