OVERVIEW

• provides interactive and script mode
• object oriented - function, method, class, class instance and many other elements are objects
• clean and readable code, high-level primitives lead to expressive power
  (tuples, lists, dictionaries)
• support for modular development (modules, packages)
• powerful error handling - exceptions: try-except-finally
• some functional programming capabilities (for Lisp lovers)
• dynamic typing and dynamic resolution
• rich set of standard, extension and third-party libraries
• multiplatform (many libraries are common to UNIX, WIN32, Mac and others)
• extensible and embeddable