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The Python Programming Language

The Python Programming Language. Jeff Myers. http://milly.rh.rit.edu/python/. Programming Language Concepts, 01/14/2002. Python Overview. Scripting Language Object-Oriented Portable Powerful Easy to learn and use Mixes good features from Java, Perl and Scheme. Major Uses of Python.

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The Python Programming Language

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  1. The Python Programming Language Jeff Myers http://milly.rh.rit.edu/python/ Programming Language Concepts, 01/14/2002

  2. Python Overview • Scripting Language • Object-Oriented • Portable • Powerful • Easy to learn and use • Mixes good features from Java, Perl and Scheme

  3. Major Uses of Python • System Utilities • GUIs (Tkinter, gtk, Qt, Windows) • Internet Scripting • Embedded Scripting • Database Programming • Artificial Intelligence • Image Processing

  4. History of Python • Created in 1990 by Guido van Rossum • Named after Monty Python • First public release in 1991 • comp.lang.python founded in 1994 • Open source from the start

  5. Language Features • Object-Oriented • Interpreted • Interactive • Dynamic • Functional • Highly readable

  6. Built-in Object Types • Numbers - 3.1415, 1234, 999L, 3+4j • Strings - 'spam', "guido's" • Lists - [1, [2, 'three'], 4] • Dictionaries - {'food':'spam', 'taste':'yum'} • Tuples - (1, 'spam', 4, 'U') • Files - text = open ('eggs', 'r'). read()

  7. Operators • Booleans: and or not < <= >= > == != <> • Identity: is, is not • Membership: in, not in • Bitwise: | ^ & ~ No ++ -- +=, etc.

  8. String Operators • Concatenation: + • Repeat: * • Index: str[i] • Slice: str[i:j] • Length: len( str ) • String Formatting: "a %s parrot" % 'dead‘ • Iteration: for char in str • Membership: ‘m’ in str

  9. Common Statements • Assignment - curly, moe, larry = 'good', 'bad', 'ugly' • Calls - stdout.write("spam, ham, toast\n") • Print - print 'The Killer', joke • If/elif/else - if "python" in text: print text • For/else - for X in mylist: print X • While/else - while 1: print 'hello' • Break, Continue - while 1: if not line: break • Try/except/finally - try: action() except: print 'action error'

  10. Common Statements • Raise - raise endSearch, location • Import, From - import sys; from sys import stdin • Def, Return - def f(a, b, c=1, d): return a+b+c+d • Class - class subclass: staticData = [] • Global - function(): global X, Y; X = 'new' • Del - del data[k]; del data [i:j]; del obj.attr • Exec - yexec "import" + modName in gdict, ldict • Assert - assert X > Y

  11. Samples • System Utility • Functional Programming • Object Oriented networking

  12. References • Python homepage: http://www.python.org/ • Jython homepage: http://www.jython.org/ • Programming Python and Learning Python: http://python.oreilly.com/ This presentation is available from http://milly.rh.rit.edu/python/

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