If you are new to Python programming or in computer programming in general, it would certainly be important for you to get some information on the advantages and disadvantages of the language and understand why would somebody want to use it. In this post, i will not enter into the technical details of the language nor use fancy words to describe you some of the language specifics. My intention is to give you some simple insight so that you can decide for yourself whether or not it would be a good idea for you to choose Python as your main programming language or just use it for certain projects.
Why Use Python ?
There are some very good reasons for which you would want to use python that i will be enlisting for you below : (please bear in mind that there might be more reasons why one should use python, but this is what i feel about the language based on my own experience with it)
1. Python is Easy to Learn
This is one of the most important things about Python and is in fact one of the main reasons why this is a very solid first programming language choice. Python’s overall structure is very clear and pretty easy for newcomers to programming to master. Since it is a high level language, this means that simple operations like string copies and such are done in very clear and easy syntax and using few commands (just one in most cases).
2. Python is Fast to Program
As you become more competent in Python programming, you will notice that you can code some pretty complicated scripts that do lots of work for you in a matter of hours or even minutes. Python’s nature lies within the scripting languages that are created to target the fast and easy programming variants. Therefore, if you wish to create various scripts to simplify casual everyday work, Python is surely the language of choice.
3. Python Has a Clear Syntax
You may feel that this is not that important but for scripting languages it really is a great asset. For instance, if you happen to be a perl programmer (or hacker), you may have already faced dozens of perl lines of code that look like hieroglyphic even to their very programmers. Python is pretty easy to descramble and you are most likely to remember what your source code does even after a long time passes.
4. Python Has Solid Documentation and a Large Set of Modules
Most of the times you will be finding very nice references and documentation on the modules that you need to use (not all times though, i must warn). The great thing is that Python has a very large set of modules virtually allowing you to do just about anything you can imagine with the language. However, you would probably need to elaborate a bit in order to discover the ins and outs of some modules (like twisted for instance).
5. Python is Cross Platform, Also Featuring Nice GUIs
A great thing about Python that you will most probably love if you tend to use lots of operating systems is its cross platform compatibility. Python can run on virtually any machine you can thing of and therefore your creations will run everywhere 99% of times. Moreover, Python cooperates very nicely with cross platform GUIs like GTK or Qt. As a result of that, you can create GUIs that run on most platforms without having to readjust the source code for each one.
There are probably the 5 most important things that I can think of that you should be aware of before selecting to use Python. If you are still doubtful about whether it is a good choice to select Python or not, please take my word for it, it’s one of the best choices you could make 
And if you are really up to it, the best source to learn the python essentials is definately the free Dive Into Python ebook !
Loading ...
Kr0w (3)
Blake (2)
George Siotas (2)
jhai (2)
2freelaptop com (1)
Adolfo (1)
Alam (1)
Alan (1)
Alex B (1)
Alex Kot (1)
“easy to learn” argument doesn’t make sense. it’s not a reason to learn a language. many things are easy to learn. but it doesn’t mean i should learn how to do those things. i’m sure other arguments are similarly meaningless.
btw, i love python
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
Your argument does not make sense. If you are in the process of learning a new programming language, you care about it being easy to learn. At least, people with common sense do. I’m sure your other comments would be similarly meaningless.
Spyros:
“Easy to learn” is absolutely no incentive to learn something; the value of the knowledge and how readily it translates to practical benefit is of ultimate consideration, not how little effort you can get away with expending in the process of learning.
It is lazy to care about how “easy” something is as long as it does not verge into the realm of “unreasonably difficult”; giving easily-accessible power unto the hands of those incapable of truly mastering it is only paving the road to your own disaster.
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
I don’t totally disagree with that S. However, i still believe that “easy to learn” is a motive towards starting to learn something, though most times it shouldn’t be.
The truth is that we are humans and humans like “easy stuff”. I feel that if someone had to choose over programming in assembly or python, they would choose the latter.
We both know that assembly is the lowest level programming language but it is quite difficult to master (if you’re not into reverse engineering, would double the effort).
Python, on the other hand, is way easier. Arguably or not, that still counts as an opinion maker.
Easy to learn means Developer should understand easily the architecture of the language like PHP . If you want to integrate some thing like API and JS frameworks you can integrated easily instead of search where to integrate. Is this make sence ?
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
Easy to learn is a valid argument, to a degree. BASIC is easy to learn too, though, but it does practically nothing.
(I love Python!)
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
tnx 4 d help..I rily nid such reference about thiz programming language bcoz I’l be d one 2 report diz on claz…
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
i like python
Like or Dislike:
0 
0