THE PYTHON THAT WON’T CONSTRICT YOU

WHY PYTHON?

Popularity: Standard libraries + third party extensions = enormous amount of uses

Ease of use

Clean, easy to read syntax

PYTHON IS POPULAR

Source: TIOBE

PYTHON IS POPULAR

Source: Ohloh

PYTHON IS EVERYWHERE

PYTHON IS EASY Low barrier to entry – not much code needed to get the job done

PYTHON IS EASY (INTERACTIVE)

PYTHON IS EASY (INTERACTIVE)

PYTHON IS EASY (INTERACTIVE)

PYTHON IS EASY (INTERACTIVE)

PYTHON IS EASY (INTERACTIVE)

PYTHON IS CLEAN AND POWERFUL

WHAT ELSE?

The new Perl –  all around glue and utility language for small tasks

Rise in the science/data/analytical realm –  SciPy, NumPy make data manipulation and

analysis very easy §  Some claim easier than R

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Codecademy

Fix our poker engine

Build a microservice using flask

Next time you reach for a bash script to solve a problem give python a whirl

IDE options: PyDev (eclipse), PyCharm

QUESTIONS?