Pythonic
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| Paradigm | Object-oriented, imperative, functional, procedural, reflective |
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| Designed by | Guido van Rossum |
| Developer | Python Software Foundation |
| First appeared | 1990 |
| Stable release |
3.6.5 / 28 March 2018
2.7.15 / 1 May 2018 |
| Preview release |
3.7.0b4 / 2 May 2018
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| Typing discipline | Duck, dynamic, strong |
| License | Python Software Foundation License |
| Filename extensions | .py, .pyc, .pyd, .pyo (prior to 3.5), .pyw, .pyz (since 3.5) |
| Website | python |
| Major implementations | |
| CPython, IronPython, Jython, MicroPython, Numba, PyPy, Stackless Python | |
| Dialects | |
| Cython, RPython | |
| Influenced by | |
| ABC,ALGOL 68,C,C++,CLU,Dylan,Haskell,Icon,Java,Lisp,Modula-3,Perl | |
| Influenced | |
| Boo, Cobra, Coconut,CoffeeScript,D, F#, Falcon, Genie,Go, Groovy, JavaScript,Julia,Nim, Ring,Ruby,Swift | |
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Python is an interpreted high-level programming language for general-purpose programming. Created by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991, Python has a design philosophy that emphasizes code readability, notably using significant whitespace. It provides constructs that enable clear programming on both small and large scales.
Python features a dynamic type system and automatic memory management. It supports multiple programming paradigms, including object-oriented, imperative, functional and procedural, and has a large and comprehensive standard library.
Python interpreters are available for many operating systems. CPython, the reference implementation of Python, is open source software and has a community-based development model, as do nearly all of its variant implementations. CPython is managed by the non-profit Python Software Foundation.
Python was conceived in the late 1980s, and its implementation began in December 1989 by Guido van Rossum at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands as a successor to the ABC language (itself inspired by SETL) capable of exception handling and interfacing with the Amoeba operating system. Van Rossum remains Python's principal author. His continuing central role in Python's development is reflected in the title given to him by the Python community: Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL).
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