An Introduction to Python

Python is a popular object-oriented programing language having the capabilities of high-level programming language. Its easy to learn syntax and portability capability makes it popular these days. The followings facts gives us the introduction to Python −

Python was developed by Guido van Rossum at Stichting Mathematisch Centrum in the Netherlands.

It was written as the successor of programming language named ‘ABC’.

It’s first version was released in 1991.

The name Python was picked by Guido van Rossum from a TV show named Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

It is an open source programming language which means that we can freely download it and use it to develop programs. It can be downloaded from www.python.org.

Python programming language is having the features of Java and C both. It is having the elegant ‘C’ code and on the other hand, it is having classes and objects like Java for object-oriented programming.

It is an interpreted language, which means the source code of Python program would be first converted into bytecode and then executed by Python virtual machine.