• Fastest Growing language, in terms of developers using it, companies using

it
• It supports many libraries
• It is a general purpose language involved in Machine learning, GUI,
Software development, Web development etc
• Interpreted, Object Oriented, High level language
• It supports procedure oriented programming, also depending on the purpose
of usage
• Why is it famous?
○ Is it because it is a new language. No. Java came in 1995 but Python
came in 1989 itself
○ Due to advancement of machine learning, AI, python came into picture
as it is very easy to implement
○ Companies using it - eg. Google, Reddit, Youtube
• Versions of Python
○ 1.x
○ 2.x
○ 3.x
• Like Java , they are not backward compatible. So every version is
completely different from old one. 2.x support is only till 2020. So we will focus
on 3.x