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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.

 

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