Introduction

1.    Python is a general purpose interpreted, interactive, object-oriented and high-level Programming language.

2.    It was created by Guido Van Rossum in late eighties and early nineties.(GNU General Public License(GPL)) at the National Research Institute for Mathematics.

3.    It is derived from many other languages, including  ABC, Module-3, C, C++, Algol-68, SmallTalk, and Unix Shell and other Scripting Languages.

4.    It was designed to be highly readable which uses English Keywords frequently where as other languages use punctuation and it has fewer syntactical constructions than other languages.

·         Python is Interpreted: This means that it is processed at runtime by the interpreter i.e. It is similar to PERL and PHP.

·         Python is Interative: This means that you can exactly sit at a python Prompt and Interact with the interpreter directly to write your programs.

·         Python is Object-Oriented :This means that Python supports Object-Oriented Style or technique of programming that encapsulates within objects.

·         Python  is Beginners Language: Python is great language for the beginners and support a range of application ,from text processing to WWW browsers to games.