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Introduction To Python

Python is a clear and powerful object-oriented programming language that was developed by Guido Van Rossum in 1990. It combines features of C and Java and has steadily released new versions since 1991. Python is easy to learn, platform independent, and has a huge library making it suitable for web, desktop, scientific, and business applications.

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Introduction To Python

Python is a clear and powerful object-oriented programming language that was developed by Guido Van Rossum in 1990. It combines features of C and Java and has steadily released new versions since 1991. Python is easy to learn, platform independent, and has a huge library making it suitable for web, desktop, scientific, and business applications.

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What is Python ?

Python is a clear and powerful object-oriented programming


language, comparable to Perl, Ruby, or Java.
Python is a programming language that combines features of C
and Java.

https://www.python.org/
History
• Python was developed by Guido Van Rossum in the year 1990 at Stichting
Mathematisch Centrum in the Netherlands as a successor of a language
called ABC.
• Name “Python” picked from TV Show Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

https://docs.python.org/3/license.html
Version
• Python 0.9.0 - February, 1991
• Python 1.0 - January 1994
• Python 2.0 - October, 2000
• Python 3.0 - December, 2008
• Python 3.1 - June, 2009
• Python 3.2 - February, 2011
• Python 3.3 - September, 2012
• Python 3.4 - March, 2014
• Python 3.5 - September, 2015
• Python 3.6 - December, 2016
• Python 3.7 - June, 2018 Python 3.5+ cannot be used on Windows XP or earlier.

https://www.python.org/doc/versions/
Features
• Easy to Learn
• High Level Language
• Interpreted Language
• Platform Independent
• Procedure and Object Oriented
• Huge Library
• Scalable
Application for Python
• Web Application - Django, Pyramid, Flask, Bottle
• Desktop GUI Application – Tkinter
• Console Based Application
• Games and 3D Application
• Mobile Application
• Scientific and Numeric https://www.python.org/about/apps/
• Data Science
• Machine Learning - scikit-learn and TensorFlow
• Data Analysis - Matplotlib, Seaborn
• Business Application

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