What Is Python Language

Computer History Notes - Herong's Tutorial Notes

∟1991 - Python Language Designed by Guido van Rossum

∟What Is Python Language

This section provides a quick introduction of Python language, a general purpose and procedural programming language that supports object model, multi-threading, and garbage collection.

What Is Python? - Python is a general purpose programming language developed in 1991 by Python Software Foundation. The Python language was originally designed by Guido van Rossum in 1989 during his Christmas holiday. Today, Python is the most popular programming language used by the science community.

Main features of Python language:

Simple and Easy to Learn - Python syntax is simple and intuitive, resembling natural language. For example, it uses indentation to define code blocks instead of curly brackets.
Scripting Language - Python code is interpreted line by line, which allows you to run it interactively for fast debugging.
Dynamically Typed Variables - Python variable's type is dynamically determined based on the assigned value. Variable type declaration is not needed.
Procedural and Object-Oriented - Python supports both procedural and object-oriented programming paradigms.
Automatic Garbage Collection - Python uses garbage collectors to handle memory deallocation automatically.
Third-Party Packages - Python has a large repository of third-party packages for different science disciplines: Flask, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, TensorFlow, PyTorch, and more.