What is Python?

An Introduction to Python programming language

Python is invented by Guido van Rossum. He is big fan of “Monty Python’s Flying Circus“, a British surreal sketch comedy series. He named after Monty Python.

Guido released Python in 1991 as open source from the start. He was chief decision-maker until 2018. But he is still very much involved in Python development.

Python features

• an interpreted, object-oriented and high-level programming language

• simple

• easy to learn

• easy to read (readability)

• have a lot of packages

Python scopes

It can be used in a wide range of applications such as

• Big data

  • Machine Learning

  • Statistics (Time series)

• Science

  • Bioinformatics

• Web application developments

  • Flask

  • Django

• Scripting role

Who uses Python?

Big techs and many more big and small businesses