Python is a high-level, interpreted, interactive & object-oriented scripting language.
Python is designed to be highly readable. It uses English keywords frequently where as other languages use punctuation & it has fewer syntatical constructions than other languages.
Python is processed at runtime by the interpreter you don't need to compile your program before executing it.
You can actually sit at a program prompt & interact with the interpreter directly to write your programs.
Python supports object-oriented style or techniques of programming that encapsulates code within objects.
Python was developed bu Guido Van Rossum in the late 1980's & early 1990's at the National Research Institute for Mathematics & Computer Science in the Netherland.
Python is derived from many other languages, including ABC, Modula-3, C, C++, small Talk, Unix Shell & other scripting Languages.
Python focus on readability, coherence & software quality in general sets it's apart from the other tools in the scripting world.
Python has deep support for more advanced software reuse mechanisms, such as object-oriented programming.
Python code is typically one third to one-fifth the size of equivalent C++ or Java Code. That means there is less to type, less to debug & less to maintain.
Python program also run immediately, without the lengthy compile and link steps required by some other tools, further boosting programmer speed.
Python comes with a large collection of prebuilt & Portable functionality, knowns as the application-level programming tasks, from text pattern matching to network scripting.
Python can be extended with both homo-grown libraries & a vast collection of third party application support software. Python's third-party domain offers tools for website construction, numeric programming, serial port access, game development & much more.
Begin a very high-level language, python reads like English, which takes a lot of syntax-learning stress off coding beginners.
Python handles a lot of complexity for you, so it is very beginner friendly in that it allows beginners to focus on learning programming concepts & not have to worry about too much details.
As a dynamically typed language, Python is really flexible. This means there are no hard rules on how to solving problems using different methods.
Python is also more forgiving of errors, so you'll still be able to compile & run your program until you hit the problematic part.
- Web Applications
- Desktop Applications
- Database Applications
- Web Scraping
- Data Analysis
- Interactive Web Visualization.
- Computer vision for the image & video processing.
- Object Oriented Programming
Type the below command in terminal window (cmd/ command prompt) which will then launch the python in-built documentation on browser on local server.
python -m pydoc -b
- -m is representing the module flag
- -b is representing the browser flag