Python

• Guido van Rossum created Python in the early 90s

  • Named after Monty Python’s Flying Circus

• Python is easy to learn

  • Simple, clean syntax
  • Elegant object-orientation
  • Good documentation
  • Friendly community

• Python is powerful

  • Efficient high-level data structures are part of the language
  • It has a very comprehensive set of standard libraries
  • It is easy to implement new functions in C or C++

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