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• Open Source programming language
• It supports a vast number of libraries.
• Python is highly readable and easy to learn.
• Python provides enhanced process control through its object-oriented design.
• It is very user-friendly and has very rich built-in data structures which are easy to use that provides the option of dynamic high-level data typing.

• Software Development- Python is helpful in software development process since it is used to build control and management, testing and moreover it works as a support language.
• Business Applications- Python is used to build business applications similar to e-commerce and ERP. Tryton is a high-level application platform built on Python.
• CAD Applications- Fandango is a real application that is built on Python which provides full features of the CAD.
• The famous social networking site “Reddit” is entirely written in Python.
• Python is also used in web development, some of its web development frameworks are Django, Flask, Pyramid, TurboGears etc.
• Python has been used in Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic trading as well.

Python is one of the most popular programming language of modern day programming. The popularity of Python programming language can be understood by the fact that almost 8 out of 10 programmers uses Python in one or many ways. Python programming language comes under the bucket list of every programmer who are willing to learn a new language.



Python stands on top amongst the most loved, dreaded, wanted and fastest growing programming language as per the statistics by StackOverflow. Python is a multipurpose, high-level, object-oriented, interpreted and extremely user-friendly programming language.

                                   


Python has a simple coding style which is easy to catch with a little knowledge and the right tools. Hence, Python is recommended as the best language for beginners planning to make a career in programming.

So, In this post, I am discussing Python language and we are also gain some introduction to its key features and having a look at release version releases over the years. So, let's get started!

Introduction
Python is a general-purpose, high-level, interpreted, dynamic and object-oriented programming language. Python is simple and easy to learn and it is highly readable moreover, it provides lots of high-level data structures. Python becomes quite popular due to its extensive application development support. Python allowed creating websites with a backend, data analysis with panda modules, GUI tools PyQt/Tkinter, predicting stock exchange using machine learning and game development using PyGame.



Python is a multipurpose language because it can be used with a web, enterprise and 3D CAD etc. We don't need to use data types to declare variables because Python is dynamically typed language which means we can write a=5 to assign an integer value in an integer variable.

History
Python was developed by Dutch programmer, Guido Van Rossum in late 1980s. The implementation of Python was started in 1989 at National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in Netherlands. He originally wanted to create an interpreter, Guido initially thought the Unix/C hackers to be the target users of his project. Python is derived from many other programming languages including ABC, Modula-3, C, C++, Algol-68, SmallTalk, Unix shell, and other scripting languages.

In 1994, Python 1.0 was released with new features like lambda, map, filter and reduce. Python 2.0 added new features like list comprehensions, garbage collection systems. On December 3, 2008, Python 3.0 (also called ""Py3K") was released. It was designed to rectify the fundamental flaw of the language.

Python Versions over the Year
There are various versions of Python programming language and it's being updated regularly with new features and support. The list of Python version with date of release is shown as



Python Features
Python Programming language has various features that make it a stable and interactive language. The various features of Python are listed as:

• Easy to read- Python code is easy and highly readable.
• Interpreted Language- Python is an interpreted language that makes debugging very easy for beginners and professionals.
• Code Quality- The readability of Python code makes it more reusable and maintainable.
• Portability- Python has a wide variety of hardware platforms and has the same interface on all platforms, makes it run on all platforms without changing a single line of code.
• Standard Library- Python programming has a large number of libraries that provide a set of functions and modules for application development on various platforms.
•  GUI Programming- Python also supports GUI application development by using its wide variety of libraries.
• Scalability- Python provides support for large programs and scripting.

 These are features of Python language which makes Python a promising language for application development as well as web development.