Hello Limey Beans here. I was just woundering if Python is a language I should learn? How easy is it too learn? What are some advantages/disadvanteges when programing with it? What can you produce by programing with it?
Thanks for any help.
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 Sep 23 2003, 3:49 pm
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Python is supposedly easy to learn, portable across different operating systems, and there are a lot of libraries available so that you don't need to start from scratch. You can produce pretty much whatever you want. It's a general purpose language.
Python is relatively slow compared to other languages. Some of this has to do with it being an interpreted language. There are tools to make it faster, but they may be a bit more difficult to handle. (Read: I'm a moron who has yet to try them.) There are some extra steps to perform when trying to optimize as compared other languages. There may be better compilers/interpreters which perform the language optimizations themself, but as far as I know the official one makes procedure and variable lookups a chore if you don't reassign them and use local variables.