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Introduction To Python

Python is an object-oriented programming language that is clear, powerful, and comparable to languages like Perl, Ruby, and Java. It was created by Guido Van Rossum in 1990 and combines features from languages like C and Java. Python has undergone many versions since its creation and has features that make it easy to learn, platform independent, and suitable for a wide range of applications including web development, desktop programs, science, data analysis, and more.

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Introduction To Python

Python is an object-oriented programming language that is clear, powerful, and comparable to languages like Perl, Ruby, and Java. It was created by Guido Van Rossum in 1990 and combines features from languages like C and Java. Python has undergone many versions since its creation and has features that make it easy to learn, platform independent, and suitable for a wide range of applications including web development, desktop programs, science, data analysis, and more.

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Python

What is Python ?
Python is a clear and powerful object-oriented programming
language, comparable to Perl, Ruby, or Java.
Python is a programming language that combines features of C
and Java.

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History
• Python was developed by Guido Van Rossum in the year 1990 at Stichting
Mathematisch Centrum in the Netherlands as a successor of a language
called ABC.
• Name “Python” picked from TV Show Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

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Version
• Python 0.9.0 - February, 1991
• Python 1.0 - January 1994
• Python 2.0 - October, 2000
• Python 3.0 - December, 2008
• Python 3.1 - June, 2009
• Python 3.2 - February, 2011
• Python 3.3 - September, 2012
• Python 3.4 - March, 2014
• Python 3.5 - September, 2015
• Python 3.6 - December, 2016
• Python 3.7 - June, 2018 Python 3.5+ cannot be used on Windows XP or earlier.

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Features
• Easy to Learn
• High Level Language
• Interpreted Language
• Platform Independent
• Procedure and Object Oriented
• Huge Library
• Scalable
Application for Python
• Web Application - Django, Pyramid, Flask, Bottle
• Desktop GUI Application – Tkinter
• Console Based Application
• Games and 3D Application
• Mobile Application
• Scientific and Numeric
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• Data Science
• Machine Learning - scikit-learn and TensorFlow
• Data Analysis - Matplotlib, Seaborn
• Business Application

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