I have done several web projects in Python using Django, but I never did a foundational study of the language before hand. So… I am reading through Learn Python the Hard Way and I wanted to document the things that I really like about Python as I am learning it from the ground up.
Here is my list in no particular order
- multiline strings with
"""
- dynamic typing
- imports
- simple format strings with
%
- having a repl for easy experimentation
- pydoc
- IPython
- The Python Docs
- unpacking arguments
- opening, reading, and writing files is very simple
- file writing and reading is designed so that scripts can run on multiple operating systems easily
- the
os module is available for creating cross OS programs
- human readable ternary operator:
'yes' if exists(file) else 'no'
I will also list a few gothchas or Aha moments:
- integer division
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