History , Features and application of python
Python is a general purpose, high-level, interpreted programming language developed by Guido van Rossum in the late 1980s at the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands.
Python is one of the most popular and widely used programming language used for set of tasks including console based, GUI based, web programming and data analysis.
Python is a easy to learn and simple programming language so even if you are new to programming, you can learn python without facing any problems.
Fact: Python is named after the comedy television show Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Features of Python
Python provides lots of features that are listed below.
1. Easy to Learn and Use
Python is easy to learn and use compared with other programming languages. It is developer-friendly and high level programming language.
2. Interpreted Language
Python is an interpreted language because no need of compilation. This makes debugging easy and thus suitable for beginners.
3. Cross-platform Language
Python can run equally on different platforms such as Windows, Linux, Unix and Macintosh etc. So, we can say that Python is a portable language.
4. Free and Open Source
The Python interpreter is developed under an open-source license, making it free to install, use, and distribute.
5. Object-Oriented Language
Python supports object oriented language and concepts of classes and objects come into existence.
Python Applications
Python is a general purpose programming language that makes it applicable in almost all domains of software development. Python as a whole can be used to develop any type of applications.
Here, we are providing some specific application areas where python can be applied.
- Web Applications
- Desktop GUI Applications
- Software Development
- Scientific and Numeric
- Business Applications
- Console Based Application
- Audio or Video based Applications
- GUI Programming Support
- Graphical user interfaces can be developed using Python.
- Integrated
- It can be easily integrated with languages like C, C++, and JAVA etc.
