Why Switch to Python?

[nevets04]

Why Switch to Python?

About Python

• very clear, readable syntax
  
• strong introspection capabilities
  
• intuitive object orientation
  
• natural expression of procedural code
  
• full modularity, supporting hierarchical packages
  
• exception-based error handling
  
• very high level dynamic data types
  
• extensive standard libraries and third party modules for virtually every task
  
• extensions and modules easily written in C, C++ (or Java for Jython, or .NET languages for IronPython)
  
• embeddable within applications as a scripting interface
  

Why switch from Visual Basic?

• Runs on multiple operating systems
  
• Better syntax
  
• More powerful
  
• Doesn't waste time creating GUI
  

Why Switch from C++?

• Python has simpler syntax
  
• What takes you a hour to make in python, can take you days to make in c++
  
• Does not need to be compiled
  

How Do I Make the Switch?

• Download Python 2.6 here
  
• Follow the tutorial here
  
• If your switching from Visual Basic, try vb2py
  

Sources

• http://vb2py.sourceforge.net/
  
• http://docs.python.org/tutorial/
  
• http://docs.python.org/download/
  
• http://python.org/about/
  

[Fallen]

You dont know the meaning of most of those words nevets lol

[nevets04]

You dont know the meaning of most of those words nevets lol

In the about section that I took from python.org/about, I had to look up a lot of words

[Gaijin]

Yes ok, that's nice.
But as much as Python is running on every system, most beginners have problems of making an .exe for win with py2exe and without that a user needs python installed in order to run it.
Overall this are nice words.

[nevets04]

Yes ok, that's nice.
But as much as Python is running on every system, most beginners have problems of making an .exe for win with py2exe and without that a user needs python installed in order to run it.
Overall this are nice words.

When I said it can run a most os's, I didn't mean after compiling it, I just meant that most os's can run python scripts, because most os's are able to install python.

[Fallen]

GUI2exe makes Python *compiling quite easy

*There is no such thing as compiling python files in the since of making a pure PE file out of a Python script alone. Py2exe and similar applications wrap a python script around the binary and necessary modules etc