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Python Characteristics - Solution

Objectives

  1. What are some characteristics of the Python programming language?
  2. What type of applications use Python?

Solution

  • It is a high level general purpose programming language created in 1991 by Guido Van Rosum.
  • The language is interpreted, being the CPython (Written in C) the most used/maintained implementation.
  • It is strongly typed. The typing discipline is duck typing and gradual.
  • Python focuses on readability and makes use of whitespaces/identation instead of brackets { }
  • The python package manager is called PIP "pip installs packages", having more than 200.000 available packages.
  • Python comes with pip installed and a big standard library that offers the programmer many precooked solutions.
  • In python Everything is an object.
  1. Web, Gaming, Machine Learning, Web Scrapers, Data (visualization, analytics) and more