Welcome to Python!
Content
• What Is Python?
• Python Features
• Python Applications
• Downloading & Installing Python
• Running Python
What Is Python?
• Python is a general purpose, high-level, interpreted
programming language.
• Developed by Guido van Rossum in the
late 1980s at the National Research
Institute for Mathematics and Computer
Science in the Netherlands.
• Python is one of the most popular and widely used
programming language used for set of tasks including console
based, GUI based, web programming and data analysis.
Fact: Python is named based on the comedy television show
Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Python Features
• Easy to Learn and Use
Python is easy to learn and use compared with other
programming languages. It is developer-friendly and high level
programming language.
• Interpreted Language
Python is an interpreted language because no need of
compilation. This makes debugging easy and thus suitable for
beginners.
• Cross-platform Language
Python can run equally on different platforms such as
Windows, Linux, Unix and Macintosh etc. So, we can say that
Python is a portable language.
Python Features Cont…
• Free and Open Source
The Python interpreter is developed under an open-
source license, making it free to install, use, and
distribute.
• Object-Oriented Language
Python supports object oriented language and concepts
of classes and objects come into existence.
• GUI Programming Support
Graphical user interfaces can be developed using Python.
• Integrated
It can be easily integrated with languages like C, C++, and JAVA
etc.
Python Applications
Downloading & Installing Python
• To start programming with python, we have to install
python software. There are two major Python versions,
those are Python 2 and Python 3. Python 2 and 3 are
quite different.
• In this tutorial we are going to use Python 3, because it
more semantically correct and supports newer features.
• In this tutorial we are going to learn about installation of
Python3 on Windows and Linux (Ubuntu).
Downloading & Installing Python Cont…
Python3 installation procedure in Windows :
1. To install Python3 in windows, we have to download Python3
software pack from official website of Python Software
Foundation. Go to https://www.python.org/
Downloading & Installing Python Cont…
2. Download the latest version of python(now latest version:
python 3.8.3) for windows.
3. After the successful completion of download, we need to
run python3.8.3.exe file.
Downloading & Installing Python Cont…
4. First we need to check Add Python 3.8 to PATH, And then
click on Install Now.
5. The Python setup will take 2 to 3 minutes of time, After
successful installation the following window will be displayed
Running Python
• After successful installation of python software we can able
interpret or execute python script / program.
Python provides us the two ways to run a python script:
1. Using Interactive interpreter prompt
2. Using a script file
1. Using Interactive interpreter prompt:
• Python provides us the feature to execute the python
statement one by one at the interactive prompt.
• It is preferable in the case where we are concerned about the
output of each line of our python program.
Running Python cont…
• To open the interactive mode, open the terminal (or command
prompt) and type python (python3 in case if you have python2
and python3 both installed on your system).
Through Command Prompt :
Running Python cont…
• In windows, search for python IDLE in all programs and then
click on python IDLE, then the python interpreter prompt will
open.
• Through python IDLE:
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2. Using Script File :
• Interpreter prompt is good to run the individual statements of
the code. However if we want to execute multiple python
statements at a time instead of executing one by one, then we
can use script file.
• We need to write our script into a file which can be executed
later. For this purpose, open an editor like notepad, create a
file named filename.py (python used .py extension) and write
the python script in it.
Output:
• Example: "First.py“
print("Hello !")
print("Welcome to Python Programming")
