Java guy interested in Python

[phys137 at mailcity.com]

personally for me the most useful features were the ones related to list processing.

List comprehensions and (limited) lambdas allow you to write one line instead of 10 - and debug much less. 

Otherwise Java platform has a lot of things that Python doesn't (like language-defined multithreading, platform defined 3D graphics etc.)

Still, Python syntax allows for many less lines of code in many situations. And that's important. Also, it is scripting - you don't have to bother with type declarations. 
  "Kyle Wayne Kelly" <kknbk2 at bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:mailman.983675705.3042.python-list at python.org...
  Can anyone tell me some of the things that Python offers which are not available in Java?  I like Python's syntax, but what can Python do that Java can not do?  Any comments are helpful.

  Kyle Wayne Kelly
  Computer Science Student
  University of New Orleans
  http://www.cs.uno.edu/~kkelly
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