Python

Is there really any use for the language? if so, what's it for?

 

Python has a ton of uses. I'm not going to outline every single thing it can do, but I'll just say that a lot of code that the ISS and Google uses is on Python. It can be used for games and scripting, system function and web development, and lots of use for system administrators and network engineers. It's also a really nice language syntactically in the first place

 

Code:

from datetime import datetime
now = datetime.now()

print '%s/%s/%s %s:%s:%s' % (now.month, now.day, now.year, now.hour, now.minute, now.second) 

Can also do it to do this kind of thing! Just something I did the other day while learning.

Code:

def clinic():
    print "You've just entered the clinic!"
    print "Do you take the door on the left or the right?"
    answer = raw_input("Type left or right and hit 'Enter'.").lower()
    if answer == "left" or answer == "l":
        print "This is the Verbal Abuse Room, you heap of parrot droppings!"
    elif answer == "right" or answer == "r":
        print "Of course this is the Argument Room, I've told you that already!"
    else:
        print "You didn't pick left or right! Try again."
        clinic()

clinic()

This is basically a very early stage of what would be a text only game.

 

I don't really care much for Python but most of the stuff I've heard about it is that it's good for making file management systems, so I guess it has good I/O?