is richer language that is used more widelyand its open source nature means it is not controlled by single company is more readable and general-purpose than php python is used to construct websites toobut it is also applied to nearly every other computer domainfrom robotics to movie animation and gaming is more powerful and general-purpose than javascript python has larger toolsetand is not as tightly bound to web development it' also used for scientific modelinginstrumentationand more is more readable and established than ruby python syntax is less clutteredespecially in nontrivial codeand its oop is fully optional for users and projects to which it may not apply is more mature and broadly focused than lua python' larger feature set and more extensive library support give it wider scope than luaan embedded "gluelanguage like tcl is less esoteric than smalltalklispand prolog python has the dynamic flavor of languages like thesebut also has traditional syntax accessible to both developers and end users of customizable systems especially for programs that do more than scan text filesand that might have to be read in the future by others (or by you!)many people find that python fits the bill better than any other scripting or programming language available today furthermoreunless your application requires peak performancepython is often viable alternative to systems development languages such as cc++and javapython code can often achieve the same goalsbut will be much less difficult to writedebugand maintain of courseyour author has been card-carrying python evangelist since so take these comments as you may (and other languagesadvocatesmileage may vary arbitrarilythey dohoweverreflect the common experience of many developers who have taken time to explore what python has to offer summary and that concludes the "hypeportion of this book in this we've explored some of the reasons that people pick python for their programming tasks we've also seen how it is applied and looked at representative sample of who is using it today my goal is to teach pythonthoughnot to sell it the best way to judge language is to see it in actionso the rest of this book focuses entirely on the language details we've glossed over here the next two begin our technical introduction to the language in themwe'll explore ways to run python programspeek at python' byte code execution modeland introduce the basics of module files for saving code the goal will be to give you python & session