It is a popular programming language that is created by - created by Guido van Rossum.

It is a collection of more than 500 libraries which is used for different-2 areas like mathematics, scientific calculation, researches, etc.

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Python is a powerful programming language and an easy to learn. It supports  high-level data structures and a simple but effective approach to object-oriented programming. Python is also used for  rapid application development in many areas on most platforms like Windows, linux and Mac etc.

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Python is used for 

• Web Development: Django, Pyramid, Bottle, Tornado, Flask, web2py

• GUI Development: tkInter, PyGObject, PyQt, PySide, Kivy, wxPython

• Scientific and Numeric: SciPy, Pandas, IPython

• Software Development: Buildbot, Trac, Roundup

• System Administration: Ansible, Salt, OpenStack

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Why Python is good -

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• Python support different – different platforms like (Windows, Mac, Linux, Raspberry Pi, etc)

• It supports simple syntax format, no need to add any semicolon when terminating statements

 

Python Supported Versions -

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Python support many versions like Python 3.x, Python 2.x, etc. as also have a big community to solve any types of version issues.

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In the next tutorial, we will cover how to install python 3.x.