Google's Python Class
<p>Feb 26, 2013 02:03 PM
 
this contains the supplementary materials, code etc.
 
<b>Guido van Rossum</b> works at Google... created in 1990.
 
quick and light language... bang out code and be done.
 
scripting language...  similar to  ruby, javascript, perl, bash, ruby etc.  (no heavy type system)
lot of momentum;
 
just try it immediately;  no compile;  small projects;
within google  it is used a lot for small projects  (debate abt whether it is good for
big projects)
 
read, eval, print loop
 
uses the types of what the vars are at runtime;
 
a = 'hello'
 
len(a) = 5
 
<b>interpreter... do little experiments</b>!!!
 
str(6)  will turn 6 into a string
 
'hello'  +  str(6)
returns  'hello6'
 
use control D to exit  (rather than quit)
 
 
 
 
 
 
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