Python is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. Created by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991, Python has a design philosophy that emphasizes code readability, notably using significant whitespace.
It provides constructs that enable clear programming on both small and large scales. In July 2018, Van Rossum stepped down as the leader in the language community after 30 years.
Python is dynamically typed and garbage-collected. It supports multiple programming paradigms, including structured (particularly, procedural), object-oriented, and functional programming.
Python is often described as a “batteries included” language due to its comprehensive standard library.[27].
Python was conceived in the late 1980s[28] by Guido van Rossum at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands as a successor to the ABC language (itself inspired by SETL)[29][30] capable of exception handling and interfacing with the Amoeba operating system.[5] Its implementation began in December 1989.[30] Van Rossum’s goal was to create a “highly readable” language;[31] not unlike ABC, it allowed code to be expressed in fewer lines than in languages such as C++ or Java.[32][33] The project was initially named “CWI Python”, then renamed to “Python” in December 1989.
[34] Python 2.0 was released on 16 October 2000 with many major new features including a full garbage collector and support for Unicode.[35][36].
Python 3.0, a major, backwards-incompatible release, was released on 3 December 2008 after a long period of testing. Many of its major features have been backported to the backwards-compatible Python 2.
6 and 2.7 series.[37].
On 17 October 2018 Python 3.7 has been released,[38] which is the latest bugfix release of the 3.7 series[39] and therefore also the last release of the 3.x series.
[40][41] Python 3 will not be supported after 2020-12-31 as no more security fixes will be issued for it[42]. Users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Python 3.9 or newer as soon as possible.[43][44][45].
As of January 2021[update], PyPI has almost 200 thousand packages available for installation,[46][47] making it one of the largest software repositories in existence.
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