Milinda Pathirage’s Blog

hile doing some research about Python modules and namespaces I found this nice presentation about features provide by Python but not available in language like Java. I though it will be a great thing if I can do some research on these features and write aseries of blog posts to describe the advantages and disadvantage(if there are any) of those features with some working examples. This is the first post of this series, which gives little introduction about Python and the features that I have mentioned earlier. What is Python? Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days. Many Python programmers report substantial productivity gains and feel the language encourages the development of higher quality, more maintainable code. -- python.org Here is the Wikipedia entry for Python. What are these nice features I am going to talk about in future?

• First Class Functions
• Exec & Eval
• Default arguments in functions
• Variable Number of function Arguments
• Introspection
• Lamda
• Filter
• Map
• Reduce
• Iterators
• List Comprehensions
• Generators
• Generator Expressions
• Decorators
• Metaclasses

Above feature list is extracted from Python Black Magic presentation which I described above. In the future posts of the Beauty of Python series I will describe these features one by one with working examples. Sphere: Related Content

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