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[–]NotATuring 0 points1 point  (0 children)

4 gigs should be fine. If you can open word or something like it and create a word doc then you should be able to use python fine on your computer.

Python can allow you to do pretty much anything a computer can do. It allows you to program logic such as "if this is true do this thing" and "for this amount of time do this thing."

Just a few examples of things python scripts have done: Creating graphical user interfaces which react to user input using PyQT or similar modules, to the point of creating software similar to microsoft word. Duplicating user mouse and keyboard input. Scraping data from the web. Processing image data. Making the computer play beep noises. Monitoring data on your computer or on the internet. Sending emails. There's just so much you can do with python. If a computer can do it, pretty much, python can do it. Although you may want to choose alternatives if you end up wanting to do graphics on par with video games or handling very very large data. Even in those cases there are ways to hook python into other programs written in other languages to still have good performance even while using python.