Welcome to Python!
Content
• What Is Python?
• Python Features
• Python Applications
• Downloading & Installing Python
• Running Python
What Is Python?
• Python is a general purpose, high-level, interpreted
programming language.
• Developed by Guido van Rossum in the
late 1980s at the National Research
Institute for Mathematics and Computer
Science in the Netherlands.
• Python is one of the most popular and widely used
programming language used for set of tasks including console
based, GUI based, web programming and data analysis.
Fact: Python is named based on the comedy television show
Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Python Features
• Easy to Learn and Use
Python is easy to learn and use compared with other
programming languages. It is developer-friendly and high level
programming language.
• Interpreted Language
Python is an interpreted language because no need of
compilation. This makes debugging easy and thus suitable for
beginners.
• Cross-platform Language
Python can run equally on different platforms such as
Windows, Linux, Unix and Macintosh etc. So, we can say that
Python is a portable language.
Python Features Cont…
• Free and Open Source
The Python interpreter is developed under an open-
source license, making it free to install, use, and
distribute.
• Object-Oriented Language
Python supports object oriented language and concepts
of classes and objects come into existence.
• GUI Programming Support
Graphical user interfaces can be developed using Python.
• Integrated
It can be easily integrated with languages like C, C++, and JAVA
etc.
Python Applications