Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language.
- General-purpose: can be used for web development, games, mobile apps, data science, AI, IoT, etc.
- High-level: code is human-readable and English-like.
- Created by Guido van Rossum at the National Research Institute, Netherlands.
- Development started in 1989, first released on February 20, 1991.
- Named after the TV show Monty Python’s Flying Circus, not the snake.
- Dynamically typed: no need to declare variable types.
a = 10
print(type(a)) # <class 'int'>- Everything is an object:
x = 5
print(isinstance(x, object)) # True- Companies using Python: Google, YouTube, NASA, IBM, Spotify, Dropbox, Instagram, Reddit
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