This introduction gives a very brief discussion of some of the fatures of python as well as an example program demonstrating their use. For reasons of brevity, none of the object oriented faetures of Python are discussed for a fuller introduction to Python, I would suggest reading the Python tutorial at http://www.python.org/doc/current/tut/tut.html or the Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python at http://www.honors.montana.edu/~jjc/easytut/easytut/.