Python 2.7.18

Summary

Learn about Python and how to obtain the service in Saint Mary's University

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Python 2.7.18

Description

Python is an interpreted, high-level and general-purpose programming language. Python's design philosophy emphasizes code readability with its notable use of significant indentation. Its language constructs and object-oriented approach aim to help programmers write clear, logical code for small and large-scale projects.

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Easy to code: Python is a high-level programming language. Python is very easy to learn the language as compared to other languages like C, C#, Javascript, Java, etc. It is very easy to code in python language and anybody can learn python basics in a few hours or days. It is also a developer-friendly language.

Object-Oriented Language: One of the key features of python is Object-Oriented programming. Python supports object-oriented language and concepts of classes, objects encapsulation, etc

GUI Programming Support: Graphical User interfaces can be made using a module such as PyQt5, PyQt4, wxPython, or Tk in python.

PyQt5 is the most popular option for creating graphical apps with Python.

High-Level Language: Python is a high-level language. When we write programs in python, we do not need to remember the system architecture, nor do we need to manage the memory.

Extensible feature: Python is a Extensible language. We can write us some Python code into C or C++ language and also we can compile that code in C/C++ language.

Python is Portable language: Python language is also a portable language. For example, if we have python code for windows and if we want to run this code on other platforms such as Linux, Unix, and Mac then we do not need to change it, we can run this code on any platform.

Python is Integrated language: Python is also an Integrated language because we can easily integrated python with other languages like c, c++, etc.

Interpreted Language: Python is an Interpreted Language because Python code is executed line by line at a time. like other languages C, C++, Java, etc. there is no need to compile python code this makes it easier to debug our code. The source code of python is converted into an immediate form called bytecode.

Large Standard Library Python has a large standard library which provides a rich set of module and functions so you do not have to write your own code for every single thing. There are many libraries present in python for such as regular expressions, unit-testing, web browsers, etc.

Dynamically Typed Language: Python is a dynamically-typed language. That means the type (for example- int, double, long, etc.) for a variable is decided at run time not in advance because of this feature we don’t need to specify the type of variable.

OS Supported

Windows 10

Apple MacOS

License Details

This license is an annual subscription purchased by Saint Mary's University

Available to

Faculty/Staff/Students

Restrictions

Personal devices and university-owned devices

How to Get

For Students/Staff/Faculty: Python is available via AppsAnywhere.smu.ca

Faculty only: For special requests, please contact EIT Helpdesk at helpdesk@smu.ca

Website

For more information, visit https://www.python.org/

 

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Article ID: 564
Created
Fri 3/19/21 2:25 PM
Modified
Fri 7/15/22 1:52 PM