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Introduction to Python

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Hello Technotizers, this article focuses on giving you information about the most popular and commonly used programming language Python. Python is very famous for its simple programming syntax, core readability and English like commands that make coding a lot easier and efficient. Due to this, it the most popular and preferred language.


History:

Python is an interpreted, high level, general-purpose programming language developed by Guido Van Rossum at National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science, Netherlands. In contrast to a popular belief that Python was named after the snake Python, Python was actually named after the show “Monty Python’s flying circus”. Guido van Rossum formulated Python in the late 1980’s as a successor to ABC language. In 1994, Python version 1.0 was released with features like exception handling, lambda. Map, filter and reduce. Python 2.0, released in 2000, introduced features like list comprehensions and garbage collection system capable of collecting reference cycles. Python 3.0 was released on the 3rd of December 2008. Undoubtedly, Python 2.x and Python 3.x have proven to be the most used versions. As of today, Python 3.7.4 is the latest stable version released in the summer of 2019.  By this day there are many developed flavors of Python like, CPython, Jython, IronPython, Brython, RubyPython, PyPy, MicroPython.

 

Usage and Applications:

 

Python is popularly used for development, scripting and software testing. Top IT companies like Google, Facebook, Instagram, Spotify and Netflix, among others, use Python. Some major applications of Python can be seen in the fields of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and IoT. Python also offers many libraries like Numpy, SciPy, Keras, Tensor Flow, Django and Flask. Pep-8 is the official style guide that defines the styling conventions for Python code. A few popular open source Python projects include PipENV, Chatistics, solving the travelling salesman problem using self-organizing maps and Python to BPF converter. Some of the trending Python repositories on Github today include, NLP (Natural Language Processing), ML-from –scratch, PyTorch-transformers, 100-days of ML code. Popular websites on the internet, like Reddit and Quora are built using Python. Civilization IV, Battlefield 2, Sims 4 and World of Tanks are some popular games developed using Python.


Some Statistics:

  1.       According to Indeed, the average salary of a Python developer in India is about Rs.5,00,000 per annum and that in the US is around $124,000. 
  2.     Python statistics 2020 revealed that there are 8.2 million Python developers in the world.
  3.     40% of Python users are aged between 21 and 29, according to the survey conducted by Stack Overflow.
  4.          As per a research conducted in 2015, primary school students were more curious to learn Python than French. Stats show that 6 out of 10 wanted to learn Python.
  5.          Python online research states that 1.4% of sites on the internet use Python which opposed to 0.9% of websites that use JavaScript.
  6.            According to Python.org, by March 2019 there have been 23,122,064 hits for Python download for Windows users.
  7.         Python literally has a package for everything! If you peep into the Cheese Shop, or Python’s package repository, you will see that there are whole more than 147,000 packages available there. There’s nothing that Python cannot be used for.
  8.          If we take a glance at the Google search results from 2019 regarding programming languages, we will see that Python stays at the top. People were more interested in job opportunities

Users and admirers of Python, especially those considered knowledgeable, are referred to as Pythonists, Pythonistas and Pythoneers. So tie your shoe laces and begin your journey as Pythoneers!! Since its inception, Python has come a long way to become the most popular coding language and continues to revolutionize the IT industry. Hope this article was helpful and informative. See you then!!

 Keep coding and exploring new techs!!

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