Python language is expressive and productive so you can create solutions quickly
Python comes with a great standard Library
Python has rich community
Introduction
Python is a widely used high-level programming language for general-purpose programming
Created by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991.
An interpreted language
Python has a design philosophy that emphasizes code readability (notably using whitespace indentation to delimit code blocks rather than curly brackets or keywords), and a syntax that allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than might be used in languages such as C++ or Java
What are the areas python is used?
It is hugely popular in several domains
Web Application development
Django
Flask
Pyramid
Scientific computing
Astropy
Biopython
SciPy
Cloud configuration
Ansible (Python based tool for configuration Management)
Boto for Amazon Web Services
Microsoft's Azure Software Development Kit for Python
Data science and Machine learning
Numpy
Pandas
Matplotlib
Bokeh
TensorFlow
Python is open source
Python is open source.
Python is hugely popular and has a great community to support you when you run into trouble
Python Features
Interpreted language
Dynamic type system
Automatic memory management
Multiple programming paradigms
object-oriented
Imperative
Functional programming
Procedural styles
Python Versions
Python 2.x is legacy
Python 3.x is the present and future of the language.
“The most visible (difference) is probably the way the “print” statement works. It's different enough that the same script won't be able to run on both versions at the same time, but pick one and you'll be fine.”
Essentially, the print statement has been replaced with a print () function.
