Python

A presentation about snakes

by Andres Rodriguez

What is Python?

It is a widely used high-level programming language for general-purpose programming

Origin

It was created by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991, and its implementation began in December 1989, at Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands.

Features

Python features a dynamic type system and automatic memory management and supports multiple programming paradigms, including object-oriented, imperative, functional programming, and procedural styles. It has a large and comprehensive standard library.

More features

Is a multi-paradigm programming language: object-oriented programming and structured programming are fully supported, and many language features support functional programming and aspect-oriented programming.

Philosophy of Python

• Beautiful is better than ugly
• Explicit is better than implicit
• Simple is better than complex
• Complex is better than complicated
• Readability counts

Syntax

Python is intended to be a highly readable language.

Designed to have an uncluttered visual layout.
Uses English keywords where other languages use punctuation.
Python has fewer syntactic exceptions and special cases than C or Pascal.