Python is one of the rare programming language, developed in 1980s and first released in 1991 by Guido Van Rossum at National Research Institute for Mathematics and computer Science in Netherlands. This language is named as python after the television series “
Monty Python’s Flying Circus”. It is a derived language from
other programming languages like C, C++, Algol-68, UNIX etc. Python is a
high-level and object –oriented scripting language which is a simple and easily
readable. The syntax construction in python language is much easier and fewer
than the other languages since they are not like a strictly structured coding
language with braces and conditional symbols. Reading a python code feels good like
reading English, because of its pseudo-code like coding nature. Though it is
simple it has its own high-level data structure, elegant syntaxes and dynamic
typing structure, thus makes it ideal for application development in diverse
platforms. The basic features of python language are it is Simple, Open source,
Portable, Interpretable, Embedded, Extensible, object –oriented High level
language.
Python
uses English keywords rather than using the semicolon and curly braces in the syntax
structure which makes it simple. It is processed by the interpreters which
makes it run the python programs directly at runtime on diverse operating
systems. It encapsulates the code within the objects hence making it
object-oriented. It supports creating a simple text processing programs to the
complex webpage programs. One of the additional feature of python is it holds a
bulk standard library which is portable and cross-platform compatible on
multiple operating systems. This portable library makes it a suitable for
programming many tasks. Python runs in all the commercial databases. It
provides a support to large programs and shell scripting. It supports
high-level dynamic data types and garbage collection.
Python
is an Open source software which can distributed its copies of its software and
enables readability of its source code and allows changes to its code to make
it a new program. It is community based and hence it faces improvement consistently.
Python supports web-applications with the help of the standard internet
protocols such as HTTP and MIME. Python programs can be created as a Graphical
User Interface with desired design which can be interconnected with the backend
relational databases. Python is compatible to Read-Evaluate-Print loop
programming which means they are capable of working with the command lines
where the user can enter statements to execute and can get the result
immediately. Python Enhancement program is process to create and developing and
add new features to the python, where the inputs are given by the community. Python
being a scripting language is productive while comparing with the conventional
languages. Some of the renowned sectors which are using python programming
language are Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia, NASA and etc. Reddit which is one of the
renowned news network is entirely designed with python. There are few
python-inspired languages like Boo, Cobra, CoffeScripit and Swift.
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