➢Python is widely used high level programming language.
➢It was created by Guido van Rossum in 1991 and further developed by the Python Software Foundation.
➢It is a popular programming language. It's applications are:
➢Software Development
➢Desktop GUIs(like wxWidgets,Kivy,Kivy)
➢Scientific and Numeric(like,SCiPy,Pandas and IPython)
➢Web and Internet Development(like Django,Pyramid,Flask and Bottle)
➢Business Applications(like Odoo,Tryton)
Python 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.