Python (programming language)

Python?is a?high-level,?general-purpose programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes?code readability?with the use of?significant indentation.[33]

Python is?dynamically-typed?and?garbage-collected. It supports multiple?programming paradigms, including?structured?(particularly?procedural),?object-oriented?and?functional programming. It is often described as a "batteries included" language due to its comprehensive?standard library.[34][35]

Guido van Rossum?began working on Python in the late 1980s as a successor to the?ABC programming language?and first released it in 1991 as Python?0.9.0.[36]?Python?2.0 was released in 2000 and introduced new features such as?list comprehensions,?cycle-detecting?garbage collection,?reference counting, and?Unicode?support. Python?3.0, released in 2008, was a major revision that is not completely?backward-compatible?with earlier versions. Python?2 was discontinued with version?2.7.18 in 2020.[37]

Python consistently ranks as one of the most popular programming languages