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Both these languages seem extremely similar to me. Although Python supports actual classes instead of being prototype-based, in Python classes are not all that different from functions that generate objects containing values and functions, just as you'd do in JavaScript. On the other hand, JavaScript only supports floating-point numbers and strings as built-in data types.



These seem like fairly shallow differences to me, so these things aside, what are some more important differences between them?


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  1. Classical inheritance in Python, Prototypal inheritance in ECMAScript

  2. ECMAScript is a braces and semicolons language while Python is white-space and indent/block based

  3. No var keyword in Python, implicit globals in ECMAScript, both are lexically scoped

  4. Closures in Python 2.5 and lower ( re: Alex Martelli's comment ) are somewhat limited because the bindings are read-only, you can't access private variables like you could in ECMAScript

  5. There's no undefined in Python, exceptions are thrown

  6. Immutable list arrays in Python ( tuples )

  7. No switch statement in Python but instead you're encouraged to use a dictionary in that manner, sometimes its convenient assigning properties to lambdas and executing them

  8. ECMAScript 3 does not have a yield statement, nor let expressions/statements, nor array comprehensions - however these are included in Mozilla's JS which is non-standard

  9. raise vs throw, except vs catch ( Python, JS )

  10. Native Unicode strings in ECMAScript

  11. keyword operators such as and, is, and not are used in Python

  12. Python doesn't support counters such as i++

  13. Python's for loop is smart so you don't need to use a counter for enumerating through lists, nor do you run into prototypal properties inherited from Object.prototype

  14. You don't have to use the new operator in Python to create objects

  15. Python is duck-typed



I stole a good bit of info from http://hg.toolness.com/python-for-js-programmers/raw-file/tip/PythonForJsProgrammers.html


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