Python is a high-level, interpreted, interactive and object-oriented scripting language. Python was developed by Gudo vanRossum in the late eighties and early nineties at the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands.
Python is developed from many other languages, including ABC, Modula-3, C, C++, Algol-68, SmallTalk, and Unix shell and other scripting languages.
Python features include:
- Easy to learn
- Easy to read
- Easy to maintain
- A broad standard library
- Interactive Mode
- Portable
- Extendable
- Scalable
- GUI
Python has different modes of programming:
- Interactive Mode Programming
- Script Mode Programming