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Python Essentials For Dummies
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Python Essentials For Dummies

by John C. Shovic, Alan Simpson
April 2024
Beginner content levelBeginner
192 pages
3h 46m
English
For Dummies
Audiobook available
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Chapter 3

Python Elements and Syntax

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Understanding the Zen of Python

Bullet Introducing object-oriented programming

Bullet Discovering why indentations are important

Bullet Using Python modules

Many programming languages focus on things that the computer does and how it does them rather than on the way humans think and work. This one simple fact makes most programming languages difficult for most people to learn. Python, however, is based on the philosophy that a programming language should be geared more toward how humans think, work, and communicate than to what happens inside the computer. The Zen of Python is the perfect example of that human orientation, so we start this chapter with that topic.

The Zen of Python

The Zen of Python, shown in Figure 3-1, is a list of the guiding principles for the design of the Python language. These principles are hidden in an Easter egg, which is a term for something in a programming language or an app that’s not easy to find and that’s an inside joke to people who have learned enough of the language or app to be able to find the Easter egg. To ...

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