Ubuntu 7.10 Linux Unleashed, Third Edition

Chapter 24. Working with Python

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• Python on Linux

• The Basics of Python

• Functions

• Object Orientation

• The Standard Library and the Vaults of Parnassus

• Reference

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As PHP has come to dominate the world of web scripting, Python is increasingly dominating the domain of command-line scripting. Python’s precise and clean syntax makes it one of the easiest languages to learn, and it allows programmers to code more quickly and spend less time maintaining their code. Although PHP is fundamentally similar to Java and Perl, Python is closer to C and Modula-3, and so it might look unfamiliar at first.

Most of the other languages have a group of developers at their cores, but Python has Guido van Rossum—creator, father, ...