Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido van Rossum, first released in 1991, designed to emphasize readable, clearly laid out code over terse notation. It supports multiple styles of programming, including procedural, object oriented and functional, and its large standard library and even larger ecosystem of third party packages have made it one of the most widely used languages in the world, especially in data science, machine learning and scripting.
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Typing Discipline Typing Discipline Typing Discipline LicensePython Software Foundation License 2.0 1 First Released ParadigmMulti paradigm: procedural, object oriented, functional 2 SignificanceBecame one of the world's most widely used languages, especially in data science and machine learning, largely on the strength of its readability and ecosystem. 2 FAQs
Why is Python called Python?
It is named after the BBC comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus.
The name comes from television comedy. When he began implementing Python, Guido van Rossum was also reading the published scripts from Monty Python's Flying Circus, a BBC comedy series from the 1970s, and that is where the name came from, according to the official Python documentation.
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Chainer, Frameworks Verified en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chainer: "Chainer is an open source deep learning framework written purely in Python on top of NumPy and CuPy Python libraries."
Django is a Python-based web framework maintained by the Django Software Foundation.
FastAPI is written in Python.
Flask is a Python micro web framework, now maintained by the Pallets project.
Keras is a Python interface for artificial neural networks.
PyTorch is a Python deep learning library, originally developed by Meta Platforms.
TensorFlow exposes a Python API over a core implemented in C++, developed by Google Brain.
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"Nim was conceived to combine the best parts of Ada typing system, Python flexibility, and powerful Lisp macro system" (Python contributed the off-side indentation rule). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nim_(programming_language)
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1. Wikidata: Python
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Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language that emphasizes code readability, simplicity, and ease-of-writing.
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Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language that emphasizes code readability, simplicity, and ease-of-writing with the use of significant indentation, an extensive ("batteries-included") standard library, and garbage collection. Python supports multiple programming paradigms but with an emphasis on object-oriented programming and dynamic typing.
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is a superset of the programming language Python
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It adds syntactic sugar inspired by Ruby, Python, and Haskell in an effort to enhance JavaScript's brevity and readability.
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