Introduction to Python
LinuxWorld - New York City - January 2002
Guido van Rossum Director of PythonLabs at Zope Corporation guido@python.org guido@zope.com
*Why Python?
• Have your cake and eat it, too: Productivity and readable code • VHLLs will gain on system languages (John Ousterhout) • "Life's better without braces" (Bruce Eckel)
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©2001, 2002 Guido van Rossum
*Tutorial Outline
• interactive "shell" • basic types: numbers, strings • container types: lists, dictionaries, tuples • variables • control structures • functions & procedures • classes & instances • modules & packages
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