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?

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