Introduction to Python
Introduction to Python
Python is an easy to learn, powerful programming language. It has efficient high-level data structures and a simple but effective approach to object-oriented programming. The main advantages of Python includes:
- It is easy to use (5 times shorter than equivalent in Java and 10 times shorter than equivalent in C)
- It is powerful
- It runs everywhere
- It has a strong community
- It is free and open source
Python can be downloaded from following webiste: https://www.python.org/download and it is very easy to install and configure.
# This is my first Python program!
print 'Hello, world!'
Python uses # to mark comments. This is a common Unix convention, though Python isn’t particularly a Unix language. Python is line-oriented: Statements are not terminated by a semicolon, but by the end of the line. Python files use a .py ending and register that file type as Python.
About Author
Naveed Afzal
Naveed Afzal is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science. He received his PhD degree in Computational Linguistics at the University of Wolverhampton, UK and a Master’s degree in Advanced Software Engineering at the University of Sheffield, UK. He have published many research articles in well-known conferences and journals. His research interests includes: NLP, Data Mining, Information Extraction, Sentiment Analysis, E-Learning, Corpus Linguistics and Software Engineering.
