Thread by @svpino

Here are some of the features that make Python 🐍 a freaking cool language.

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1. You can slice and dice arrays very easily.

2. What's even better: negative indexing is really cool, and you can use it to refer to items from the last element in the list.

3. Unpacking lets you assign an iterable of values to different variables in a single statement.

4. f-strings let you format strings in a concise and readable way.

5. You can zip iterables together and create parallel iterators.

6. You can construct new sequences using comprehensions, an elegant way to make stuff happens in a single line.

7. You can use generator expressions to create an iterator that will generate elements on-demand.

8. Chaining comparison operators is a blast.

9. You can create new types dynamically in a very simple way.

10. Before I move to the rest of the list, you don't need to worry about curly braces or semicolons in Python.

In my book, that's a big win!

Here are even more cool features of the language:

▫️ Imaginary numbers
▫️ for-else loops
▫️ try-except-else expressions
▫️ Keyword arguments
▫️ Walrus operator
▫️ String interpolation
▫️ Tuples
▫️ Named tuples
▫️ Slice assignment

▫️ Naming slices
▫️ Sets and set operations
▫️ Lambda functions
▫️ The with statement
▫️ Decorators
▫️ Descriptors
▫️ Enumeration

And it's not only about features; Python is much more than that:

▫️ Easy to learn
▫️ Easy to write
▫️ Free and Open Source
▫️ Portable
▫️ Mature community
▫️ Large sponsors
▫️ Versatile

Python lovers, what else am I forgetting here? Non-Python users, what are you waiting for?

Python has whatever you are looking for. There’s a library for that.

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