Advantages and Disadvantages of Python

Major advantages of scripting languages

•  Easy to learn and use
•  Allows the addition of dynamic and interactive activities to web pages
• Allows complex tasks to be performed in relatively few steps
• It allows users & programmers to create and interpret in many text editors.

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First of all, we discuss disadvantages in python and then advantages... 

Disadvantages of Python

• Speed Limitations

                      We know that Python code is executed line by line because Python uses interpreter, it results in slow execution. 

• Weak in Mobile Computing and Browsers

                      While it serves as an excellent server-side language, Python is much rarely seen on the client side. 

• Design Restrictions

                      Python is dynamically typed. It means that you don’t need to declare the type of variable while writing the code. While this is easy during coding, it can raise run time errors.

• Underdeveloped Database Access Layers

                       Compared to more widely used technologies like JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity) and ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity), Python’s database access layers are a bit underdeveloped. Consequently, it is less often applied to huge enterprises.

Advantages of Python

• Easy learning and Support Available

                        Python offers excellent readability and simple-to-learn syntax which helps beginners. Additionally, the wide base of users and active developers has resulted in the internet  to encourage development.

• Presence of Third Party Module

                       The Python Package Index (PyPI) contains numerous third-party modules that make Python capable of interacting with most of the other languages and platforms.

• High- Level Language

                         It is a high-level language. When you write programs in python, you don’t need to remember the system architecture, nor do we need to manage the memory, this makes it more programmer friendly.

• Extensive Support Libraries

                         Python provides a large standard library which includes areas like internet protocols, string operations, web services tools and operating system interfaces. 

• Open Source and Community Development

                          Python language is developed under an OSI-approved open source license, which makes it free to use and distribute, including for commercial purposes.

• User-friendly

                          Python has built-in list and dictionary data structures which can be used to construct fast runtime data structures.

• Productivity and Speed

                          Python has a clean object-oriented design. Python is considered a viable option for building complex multi-protocol network applications.

• Dynamically Typed

                          Python is dynamically typed, this means that the type for a value is decided at runtime, not while writing code. So, you don’t need to specify the type of data while declaring it.

• Portability

                          If you have written a Python code for windows machine. If you want to run on a Mac, you don’t need to change to it for the same. You can take one code & run it on any machines. This makes Python a portable language.

• Extensible

                          Python can be extended to other languages. You can write some of your code in languages such as C++ or C, this comes in handy especially in projects.

• Object-Oriented

                          Python supports both procedure-oriented & object-oriented programming is one of the key python features. Functions help us with code reusability, classes, & objects.

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https://www.python.org/downloads/

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