Welcome to Python Arena
What is Python?
Python is an interpreted, object-oriented, simple and easy to learn programming language.
Who created Python?
Guido van Rossum, the Dutch programmer, created python.
He started working on python in 1980s and released the first version of python in 1991 as Python 0.9.0.
The latest version Python 3.0 final was released on December 3rd, 2008.
Why the name Python?
When he began implementing Python, Guido van Rossum was also reading the published scripts from “Monty Python's Flying Circus”, a BBC comedy series from the 1970s. Van Rossum thought he needed a name that was short, unique, and slightly mysterious, so he decided to call the language Python.
Python Applications
Python Features
1. Interpreted Language
Python is an interpreted programming language. The code runs one line at a time. Interpreted language makes the code execution faster and
debugging easy.
2. Dynamically Typed Language
Python is a strongly typed and a dynamically typed language. Strong typing means that variables do have a type and that the type matters when performing operations on a variable. Dynamic typing means that the type of the variable is determined only during runtime
3. Cross Platform Language
Python is a cross platform language. It supports many platforms like Windows, Mac, Linux. If you write code in one system. you can use the same code in other system without making any changes in the existing code.
4. Procedure-Oriented & Object-Oriented Language
A programming language is procedure-oriented if it focuses more on functions and a programming language is object-oriented if it is created using classes and objects. Python supports both the above paradigm.
Python Advantages
1. Easy to Code
Python is easy to code as compared to other programming languages.
you can execute your code in fewer lines. You can learn and start using python for programming in few days but it might take some time to get fluent in python modules and advance functions.
2. Free and Open Source
Python is free and open source programming language. you can download it from the official website and use it for free. Python is developed under an osi-approved open source license. you can modify and send it for free. Since it is open source, Source code is also available for public to use and modify it.
3. Easy to Read & Debug
Unlike other programming languages, python don't have braces and semicolons. So it is easy to read and understand the language. Python syntax is similar to English language and basic math operators are used. Debugging and tracing the code is quite easy because of the easy readibility of the code.
4. Popular Modules & Library
Python has very popular modules and libraries like Numpy, Pandas use for data manipulation. Matplotlib and Seaborn for data Visualization.
Math and Date are some of few popular libraries of python.