Features of Python

Following are the features of Python programming which make it powerful programming language

1. Python is Easy. Easy to learn, easy to code and readable language

Easy to Learn
Python is very easy to learn compared to other languages like C, C++, Java, C#

Easy to Code

It is very easy to write code in Python compared to other popular languages like Java, C++,
C#

Easy to Read
The code written in Python is easy to read and understand. As Python is a high level
language the code is quite like English, it is easy to understand and looking at the code you
can tell what the code is supposed to do

2. High Level Programming Language

A high-level language (HLL) is a programming language that enables a programmer to write

programs that are more or less independent of a particular type of computer. These
languages are said to be high level since they are very close to human languages and far
away from machine languages. Unlike C, Python is a high-level language. We can easily
understand Python and it is closer to the user than middle-level languages like C

Python is a high-level language which means that as programmers, we don't need to worry
about the System Architecture and Memory Management and thus making Python as a
friendly programmer language
3. Free and Open Source

Python is available for free. You can download Python from the official Python website
(https://www.python.org) for free and there is no need to pay any amount

You can use Python for developing software applications which can be personal or
commercial or any

Secondly it is also Open Source.

Open source means the Python source code is open and available to the public. You can
download the python source code, you can modify or make changes to the source code, and
then you can use the modified source code and you can also distribute the modified source
code

4. Interpreted Language:

Languages like C++ or Java, you must first need to compile it, and then run it. But in Python,
there is no need to compile it.

Python is interpreter based language. The interpreter will convert the source code to
machine language and is executed line by line, and it will not run the code all at once.
Because of this, it is easier to debug your code. Because of this, it is easier to debug your
code.

5. Portability:

Python is a portable language. Python can be run on any platform like Windows, Linux, Unix,
Mac, Android

For example if we write Python code in Windows and the same code can be run on any other
operating system like Linux, MAC OS without making any changes or sometimes by making
very less changes
6. Large Standard Library:

This is one of the important feature why Python is so famous today in today's time in the
software industry is the vast and huge standard library it offers
Python supports large set of libraries and provides thousands of functionalities to the
developer for developing successful applications. This is one of the major reasons why
python becomes popular among the programming community.
The standard Python library is extremely large with diverse set of packages, modules and
many more with common and important functionalities in them.

If the code of some functionality is already present in these modules and packages, there is
no need for the developer to rewrite from the scratch and can use the functionality already
available thus saving both the time and effort at the developer's end.

And the developer can now focus on important things concerning to their projects

7. Dynamic Typed Language:

Python is a dynamically typed language. In Python there is no need to specifiy the data type
for the variables at the time of defining of creating the variables like in C,C++,Java, C
Sharp,etc.

In Python the type of variable will be set dynamically on the air basing on the value stored
inside the variablle during the execution. Also the data type can be changed from one data
type to another data type during the program execution and it is not static or fixed to a
single data type for the whole program.
It is the job of the Python interpreter to determine the data types of the variables at runtime
based on the types of the parts of the expression. Though it makes coding easier for
programmers but it can create run-time errors if proper care is not taken

To be specific, Python follows duck typing. It means that “If it looks like a duck, swims like a
duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck.”
8. Supports both Procedure Oriented Language and Object-Oriented
Language

Python supports various programming paradigms like structured procedural programming,

functional programming, and object-oriented programming.
Python supports both procedure-oriented and object-oriented programming which is one of
the key python features.
A programming language that can model the real world is said to be object-oriented. It
focuses on objects and combines data and functions.

9. Extensible

Extensible feature of Python refers that you can write some part of Python code in any other
language like C or C++. It means it can be extended to other languages. It is not extending
language itself (like syntax, constructs) and lets you interface python with libraries written in
other languages

In simple terms, you can write code in other languages in your Python source code

10. Embeddable or Integrated Language

You can embed your Python source code in any other language like C, C++, Java. So it is also
possible to write your Python code in a source code which is written in a different
programming language like C, C++, Java. This allows the programmer tpo integerate Python
scripting capabilities into programs written in other languages
 11. Large Community Support:

For any programming language to be successful and position itself as a force it should have a
large, dedicated and active. With around three-decade period Python has a vast and
supportive community over that period. As a consequence the development and growth of
Python has taken leaps forward and gained a lot of popularity over the years

Large Python community : Python has a large community online with a lot of dedicated and
active Knowledgable Python Developers. With one of the biggest communities on
StackOverflow and Meetup, Python has gained its popularity over the years. If we need any
kind of help related to Python, the huge community is always there to answer our queries. A
lot of questions about Python have already been answered on these sites and Python users
can reference them as per requirement.

12. GUI Support :

Python can be used to create to create Graphical User Interface (GUI) based applications
Python features a huge number of GUI frameworks available for it to variety of other cross-
platform solutions. It binds to platform-specific technologies.

Conclusion:

Python is extremely easy to understand and therefore, millions of people all around the
world are beginning to pick up Python for a number of fields. Many big companies have
separate interview rounds to check a candidate’s Python programming skills and therefore, if
you are up for an interview in the next couple of months, we would highly suggest you get
hands-on with programming in Python and using its various features. Python is definitely the
programming language of the future and its tremendous popularity and usage in today’s
world hint at the fact that it is here to stay for a long period of time. Hence, if one knows
how to code in Python, one will definitely benefit a lot from it.

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