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What can you do with Python? - Python Tutorial
From the course: Python for Students
What can you do with Python?
- One of the things that makes Python awesome is that it's a general purpose programming language, and this means that it has a huge variety of applications. I want to share a few examples, so that you can really see the power of Python. First is web applications. There are a ton of web frameworks built using Python, the most popular of which are probably Flask and Django. These allow you to fairly quickly get a web application up and running, using Python as your server side programming language. Then, through scientific computing. Python has become extremely popular amongst mathematicians, scientists, and statisticians, due to some incredible open source libraries for high level mathematics and data analysis, including NumPy and Pandas. Next, there's basic day-to-day automation. You can use Python to read and organize files, to scrape webpages for information, download pictures, or send emails and text messages. Pretty much anything you can imagine doing on a computer, you can write…
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