Python is the next version of a dynamic programming language with an emphasis on performance and code readability. The minimalistic syntax of the kernel in Python is combined with excellent functionality of the standard library.
The language that Guido Van Rossum started developing in the mid-90s is currently one of the most popular programming languages in the world.
No wonder - as a general-purpose language, Python is used in all areas of software development. Python interacts easily with existing components, making it easy to integrate into finished applications. One of the main advantages of this language is its cross-platform nature, allowing objects to be ported from one OS to another.
Program updates come out about every two and a half years.Trying Python in action is worthwhile for anyone involved in programming. The reference implementation of this language is the interpreter CPython, which supports most known platforms. Code is organized in Python in functions and classes that are combined into modules, and those in turn are collected into packages.
It is distributed under a very liberal license, which allows you to download Python for free and use it without restrictions.
The main features of Python are:
- high level of introspection;
- object orientation is intuitive;
- procedural code is expressed in kind;
- support for add-ons and modules written in other languages, among others;
- integration into applications as a scripting shell;
- errors are handled as exceptions;
- developed standard library and a set of third-party modules for solving various tasks.
Compared to the previous version, Python has significantly improved existing modules and added new ones. In addition, the processing performance of non-text codecs has been improved. As for security, the new version of Python has made the caching algorithm even safer.
