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The history of Python includes:

• Conception

Guido van Rossum, a Dutch programmer, conceived Python in the late 1980s at Centrum Wiskunde &
Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands.

• Development

Van Rossum began implementing Python in December 1989 as a successor to the ABC programming
language. He named it after the British comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus.

• Release

Python was publicly released in 1994.

• Features

Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language with an English-like syntax. It supports


both object-oriented and procedure-oriented programming structures.

• Major releases

Python 2.0 was released in 2000 with new features like list comprehensions, cycle-detecting garbage
collection, and Unicode support. Python 3.9 was released in 2020 with new features like improved
dictionary merging and faster parsing of date strings.

• Community

Van Rossum remained involved in Python's development until 2018, but a large community of other
developers also contributed significantly. The Python community gave Van Rossum the title "Benevolent
Dictator for Life" (BDFL).

• Popularity

Python is popular and widely used across different fields. It's the programming language of choice for ML
experts and data scientists because of its easy syntax and simplicity.

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