INTRODUCTION

➢Created by Guido Van Rossum.
➢First released in 1991.
➢Supports object-oriented Programming with classes and multiple inheritance.
➢Comes with large standard library.
➢Includes an IDLE.
➢Runs on Mac OS X, Windows, Linux as Freeware.

FEATURES

Easy to Use:
Python is very easy to use and high level language. Thus it is programmer-friendly language.

Expressive Language:
Python language is more expressive. The sense of expressive is the code is easily understandable.

Interpreted Language:
Python is an interpreted language i.e., interpreter executes the code line by line at a time. This makes debugging easy and thus suitale for beginners.

Cross-platform language:
Python can run equally on different platforms such as Windows, Linux, Unix, Macintosh etc.
Thus, Python is a portable language.

Free and open source:
Python language is freely available.

Object-Oriented Language:
Python supports object oriented language. Concepts of classes and objects comes into existence.

Large Standard Library:
Python has a large and board library.

GUI Programming:
GUI can be developed using Python.

Integrated:
It can be easily integrated with languages like C, C++, Java etc.

APPLICATIONS

➢Web Applications
➢Desktop GUI Applications
➢Console-Based Applications
➢Software Development
➢Scientific & Numeric
➢Business Applications
➢Audio or Video-Based Applications
➢3D CAD Applications
➢Enterprise APllications
➢Image Processing Applications