Intoduction

• What is Python…?
• Differences between program and scripting language
• History of Python
• Scope of Python
• What can I do with python
• Who uses python today
• Why do people use Python?
• Installing Python IDE
• A Sample Code
• Python code execution
• Running Python
• Python Basic(Variable, Strings, Data types etc.)

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 What is Python…?
• Python is a general purpose programming language that is
often applied in scripting roles.
• So, Pythonis programming language as
well as scripting language.
• Python is also called as Interpreted language

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Differences between program
and scripting language

Program Scripting
•a program is •a script is interpreted
executed (i.e. the •A "script" is code
source is first
compiled, and the written in a scripting
result of that language. A scripting
compilation is language is nothing
expected) but a type of
•A "program" in programming
general, is a language in which we
sequence of can write code to
instructions written control
so that a computer another software 3
 History
• Invented in the Netherlands, early 90s by Guido
van Rossum
• Python was conceived in the late 1980s
and its implementation was started in December
1989
• Guido Van Rossum is fan of ‘Monty
Python’s Flying Circus’, this is a famous TV show in
Netherlands
• Named after Monty Python
• Open sourced from the beginning

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Python’s Benevolent Dictator For
Life
“Python is an experiment in how
much freedom programmers need.
Too much freedom and nobody can
read another's code; too little and
expressiveness is endangered.”
- Guido van Rossum

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 Why was python
created?
"My original motivation for creating Python was the
perceived need for a higher level language in the
Amoeba [Operating Systems] project.
I realized that the development of
administration
system utilities in was taking long
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language that would bridge the gap between C
and the shell”
- Guido Van Rossum

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 Scope of Python
• Science
- Bioinformatics
• System Administration
-Unix
-Web logic
-Web sphere
• Web Application
Development
-CGI
-Jython – Servlets
• Testing scripts
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 What can I do with Python…?
• System programming
• Graphical User Interface Programming
• Internet Scripting
• Component Integration
• Database Programming
• Gaming, Images, XML , Robot and more

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 Who uses python today…
• Python is being applied in real revenue-generating
products by real companies. For instance:
• Google makes extensive use of Pythonin
its web search system, and employs Python’s
creator.
• Intel, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, Seagate, Qualcomm, and IBM
use Python for hardware testing.
• ESRI uses Python as an end-user customization tool for its
popular GIS mapping products.
• The YouTube video sharing serviceis
largely written in Python
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 Why do people use Python…?
The following primary factors cited by Python users
seem to be these:
•Python is object-oriented
Structure supports such concepts as polymorphism,
operation overloading, and multiple inheritance.
.
•It's free (open source)
Downloading and installing Python is free and easy
Source code is easily accessible

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• It's powerful
- Dynamic typing
- Built-in types and tools
- Library utilities
- Third party utilities (e.g. Numeric, NumPy, SciPy)
- Automatic memory management
• It's portable
- Python runs virtually every major platform used today
- As long as you have a compatible Python interpreter
installed, Python programs will run in exactly the same
manner, irrespective of platform.

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 Installing Python
• Python is pre-installed on most Unix systems, including
Linux and MAC OS X

• But for in Windows Operating Systems , user can

download from the
https://www.python.org/downloads/
- from the above link download latest version of python
IDE and install, recent version is 3.4.1 but most of
them uses version 2.7.7 only

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• After installing the
Python Ver#2.7.7, go to
start menu then click on
python 2.7 in that one
you can select python
(command line) it is
prompt with >>>

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 Running Python
Once you're inside the Python interpreter, type in commands at will.
•Examples:
>>> print 'Hello world' Hello world

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 Python Code Execution
• Python’s traditional runtime execution model: source code
you type is translated to byte code, which is then run by the
Python Virtual Machine. Your code is automatically
compiled, but then it is interpreted.

Source code extension is .py

Byte code extension is .pyc (compiled python
code)
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MATH(OPERATOR)
IN PYTHON
 Math
Try typing this into Code:
>>> print 3 + 12
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>>> print 12 – 3
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>>> print 9 + 5 – 15 + 12
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Operators: add: + subtract: -

Note: don’t type the arrows

>>> !

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 Math
Rule: If you want Python to answer in floats, you
have to talk to it in floats.

More operators:
divide: /
multiply: *

>>> print 3 * 12 36
>>> print 12 / 3 4
>>> print 11 / 3 3
>>> print 12.0 / 3.0 4.0
>>> print 11.0 / 3.0 3.66

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 Math

Practic
e:
>>> print 2 < 3 True
>>> print 2 <= 2 False
>>> print 3 > 2 True
>>> print 2 != 3 True
>>> print False < True True

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STRINGS IN
PYTHON

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 Strings
>>> “It’s a beautiful
Examples:
day!”
>>> “Goodbye, cruel
Try typing one without
world.”
quotes: What’s the result?

>>> Aggies

>>> “Aggies”
>>> “Rice fight, never
die!”
>>> “3 + 2” 22
 Strings

String
operators:
concatenation:
+
multiplication: *
Try >>> print “Hello” +
concatenating: “ “ + “world!”
Try multiplying: >>> print “HAHA” *
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VARIABLES IN
PYTHON

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 Variabl
e
Create a Variable:
>>>headmaster=“Dumble
dore”
>>>print headmaster
‘Dumbledore’

Assigning a New
Value:

>>>headmaster=“Hardcas
tle”
>>>print headmaster
‘Hardcastle’
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DATA TYPES
IN PYTHON
Data
Type:
Python has many native data types. Here are the important ones:

Booleans are either True or False.

Numbers can be integers (1 and 2), floats (1.1 and 1.2),

fractions (1/2 and 2/3), or even complex numbers.

Strings are sequences of Unicode characters, e.g. an

HTML document.

Bytes and byte arrays, e.g. a JPEG image file.

Lists are ordered sequences of values.

Tuples are ordered, immutable sequences of values.

Sets are unordered bags of values.

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Example:
String
“Whoop!”
Intege
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r
3.14159
Float
[“John”, “Paul”,
List “George”, “Ringo”]
Python can tell us about types using the
type() function:

>>> print type(“Whoop!”)

<type ‘str’>

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LIST: DATA
TYPE

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List
:
The list is a most versatile Data type available in
Python which can be written as a list of comma-
separated values (items) between square brackets.
Important thing about a list is that items in a list
need not be of the same type.

Example:
list1 = ['physics', 'chemistry', 1997,
2000];
list2 = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ];

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SN Function with Description

1 cmp(list1, list2) Compares elements of both lists.

2 len(list) Gives the total length of the list.

3 max(list) Returns item from the list with max value.

4 min(list) Returns item from the list with min value.

5 list(seq) Converts a tuple into list.

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List: a sequence of
“Ringo”]
objects
>>> Beatles = [“John”, “Paul”, “George”,
>>> grades = [82, 93, 67, 99, 100]

Guess what this will output:

>>> type(Beatles)

>>> type(grades)
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 Lists
Index: Where an
item is in the list

>>> Beatles = [“John”, “Paul”,

“George”, “Ringo”]
>>> Beatles[0]
‘John‘
[“John”, “Paul”, “George”, “Ringo”]
0 2 3
1

Python always starts at

zero!
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TUPLE: DATA
TYPE
Tuple
s:
A tuple is a sequence of immutable Python objects.
Tuples are sequences, just like lists. The differences
between tuples and lists are, the tuples cannot be
changed unlike lists and tuples use parentheses,
whereas lists use square brackets.

Example:
tup2 = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 );
tup3 = ("a", "b", "c", "d“);

Accessing Values: print "tup2[1:5]: “ Output:

tup2[1:5]: [2, 3, 4, 5]

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Built-in Tuple Functions
Python includes the following tuple functions
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SN Function with Description

1 cmp(tuple1, tuple2) Compares elements of both tuples.

2 len(tuple) Gives the total length of the tuple.

3 max(tuple) Returns item from the tuple with max value.

4 min(tuple) Returns item from the tuple with min value.

5 tuple(seq) Converts a list into tuple.

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LOOPS &
CONDITIONAL
STATEMENTS

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Loop Type Description

while loop Repeats a statement or group of

statements while a given condition is
TRUE. It tests the condition before
executing the loop body.
for loop Executes a sequence of statements
multiple times and abbreviates the code
that manages the loop variable.

nested loops You can use one or more loop inside any
another while, for or do..while loop.

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Statement Description

if statements An if statement consists of a boolean

expression followed by one or more
statements.

if...else statements An if statement can be followed by an

optional else statement, which executes
when the boolean expression is FALSE.

nested if statements You can use one if or else if statement

inside
another if or else if statement(s).

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I believe the trial has shown conclusively that it is both possible and desirable to
use Python as the principal teaching language:

oIt is Free (as in both cost and source code).

oIt is trivial to install on a Windows PC allowing students to take their interest
further. For many the hurdle of installing a Pascal or C compiler on a Windows
machine is either too expensive or too complicated;
oIt is a flexible tool that allows both the teaching of traditional procedural
programming and modern OOP; It can be used to teach a large number of
transferable skills;
oIt is a real-world programming language that can be and is used in academia
and the commercial world;
oIt appears to be quicker to learn and, in combination with its many libraries, this
offers the possibility of more rapid student development allowing the course to
be made more challenging and varied;
oand most importantly, its clean syntax offers increased understanding and
enjoyment for students;

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