Introduction to the Python programming language

1.2. Advantages

• portable (its source code is available for more different platforms, and most of the code can be easily ported to some other platform)
• allows writing more compact and smaller code
• the code in Py is usually smaller and more readable than its C/C++ equivalent
• suitable for small, as well as large projects
• extensible through C and Java (Jython)
• quite popular and used by these organizations:
  • Yahoo! Groups
  • Google
  • Linux Weekly News
  • Industrial Light & Magic
  • Jasc Software (Paint Shop Pro)
  • NASA
  • Red Hat
  • IBM
  • Real Networks
• really good and supportive community (www.python.org, newsgroup)
• easy to learn but extremely powerful
• a cool shell where you can test your code and interpret it immediately