INTRODUCTION
Python is a popular programming language. It was created by Guido van Rossum, and released in 1991.
It is used for:
web development (server-side),
software development,
mathematics,
system script
ADVANTAGES OF PYTHON
1. Easy to use
2. Expressive language
3. Interpreted language
4. Cross platform language
5. Free and open source
6. Varity of Applications
SOME MINUSES ( SO HUMAN LIKE )
1. Not the fastest language
2. Lesser libraries than C,Java,Perl
3. Not strong on type binding
4. Not easily convertible.
** As per 2020 popularity index, Python was 2nd most popular programming language after Javascript.**
You can work in python in following different ways:
1. In Interactive mode (also called Immediate Mode)
2. In Script mode
Interactive mode does not save commands in form of a program and also, output is sandwiched between commands.
Interactive mode is suitable for testing code
Python’s interactive interpreter is also called Python shell.
Script mode is useful for creating programs and then run the programs later and get complete output.
