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Learning Python programming language

The world is full of programming, we have so many programming languages among them half a dozen are really important. One of them is the Python programming language. If you consider it as a tool it will be the best tool in your toolbox. Learning python programming is not a difficult task but we need to pay attention to it. Let us see the importance of python programming language. Python is considered an interpreted language because Python programs are executed by an interpreter. There are two ways to use the interpreter interactive mode and script mode.

History of python programming

Python is developed by a guy named Guido van Rossum in 1989. He is presently working for google.

Python programming has several versions like Python-2.x, 3.x. Present 3.x version is running but 2.7 is a stable version most of the developers will use 2.7. Python is not a backward-compatible language. That means if you write python code in 2.x version will not work in 3.x version. Python is using by several famous companies like Google, YouTube, Pinterest, DropBox, Nokia, Trulia, etc. So many projects are developing by using Python.

Why Python programming?

1. It is an Open source that means you can run anywhere.
2. It is multi-platform.
3. It is having a Rich set of libraries so that you can invoke methods and packages.
4. It is vastly using in the development of open-source tools.
5. It is also multiple OS support we can use it in Linux, Mac, Windows, Mobile phones.
6. In Linux and Mac, it is preloaded, but in windows, we have to install by using Active state python.

Python programming is commonly applied in several domains. For example, you can do:

1. Game programming and multimedia in Python with the pygame system
2. Serial port communication on Windows, Linux, and more with the PySerial extension
3. Image processing with PIL, PyOpenGL, Blender, Maya, and others
4. Robot control programming with the PyRo toolkit
5. XML parsing with the XML library package, the xmlrpclib module, and third-party extensions
6. Artificial intelligence programming with neural network simulators and expert system shells.
7. Natural language analysis with the NLTK package

Python is implementing in other languages like C, Java, .Net. In C we will call it CPython, in java it is Jython and in .Net it is IronPython.

** In this post we discussed history, uses and python implementations had discussed in the next post we will begin with Programming with Python.

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