Python's feature

Python's feature highlights include:

Ø  Easy-to-learn: Python has relatively few keywords, simple structure, and a clearly defined syntax. This allows the student to pick up the language in a relatively short period of time.

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

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

Ø  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.

Ø  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.

Ø  Portable: Python can run on a wide variety of hardware platforms and has the same interface on all platforms.

Ø  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.

Ø  Databases: Python provides interfaces to all major commercial databases.

Ø  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.

Ø  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 are listed below:

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

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

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

Ø  Supports automatic garbage collection.

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