Python is a high level, interpreted programming language, designed and developed by Guido van Rossum in 1990s. Python is known for its simplicity and easy to understand capability. It is one of the most popular language present in the software industry.
Python is dynamic in nature and supports various programming paradigm like: object-oriented, functional, imperative etc that makes it more strong and powerful to deal with various software domains. Currently, python is in demand for Machine learning, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Application Development.
It was first released in 1991 and till now many versions has been released for Python Versions. Currently Python Software Foundation manages and control Python development.Behind the popularity of this language there are various advantages that makes this programming language more powerful.
Python is widely used for the following purposes which makes it more all rounder language than others.
Python has rich set of standard library which includes immense amount of packages. Python Package Index (PPI) contains following packages that includes numerous functionalities.
Python is popular and in demand, you can understand it by seeing the list of top IT industries which are working on python and their applications are running using python. This list is just a little one compare to the real usage in the market.