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Python is Interactive: This means that you can actually sit at a Python prompt and interact with the interpreter directly to write your programs.  | 
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Python is Object-Oriented: This means that Python supports Object-Oriented style or technique of programming that encapsulates code within objects.  | 
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Python is Beginner's Language: Python is a great language for the beginner programmers and supports the development of a wide range of applications, from simple text processing to WWW browsers to games.  | 
                          
| Python runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, and has been ported to the Java and .NET virtual machines. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Python is free to use, even for commercial products, because of its OSI-approved open source license | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Python  is an easy to learn, powerful programming language. It has efficient  high-level data structures and a simple but effective approach to  object-oriented programming. Python’s elegant syntax and dynamic  typing, together with its interpreted nature, make it an ideal language  for scripting and rapid application development in many areas on most  platforms.  | 
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| History of Python: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|                                Python was developed by Guido van Rossum in the late eighties and early  nineties at the National Research Institute for Mathematics and  Computer Science in the Netherlands.  | 
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|                                Python is derived from many other languages, including ABC, Modula-3,  C, C++, Algol-68, SmallTalk, and Unix shell and other scripting  languages.  | 
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| Python is copyrighted, Like Perl, Python source code is now available under the GNU General Public License (GPL). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Python is now maintained by a core development team at the institute, although Rossum still holds a vital role in directing it's progress. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|                                Python is a remarkably powerful dynamic programming language that is  used in a wide variety of application domains. Python is often compared  to Tcl, Perl, Ruby, Scheme or Java. Some of its key distinguishing  features include:  | 
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|                                The Python interpreter and the extensive standard library are freely  available in source or binary form for all major platforms from the  Python Web site, http://www.python.org/, and may be freely distributed.  The same site also contains distributions of and pointers to many free  third party Python modules, programs and tools, and additional  documentation.  | 
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|                                The Python interpreter is easily extended with new functions and data  types implemented in C or C++ (or other languages callable from C).  Python is also suitable as an extension language for customizable  applications.  | 
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| Benefits of using Python: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fans  of Python use the phrase "batteries included" to describe the standard  library, which covers everything from asynchronous processing to zip  files. The language itself is a flexible powerhouse that can handle  practically any problem domain. Build your own web server in three  lines of code. Build flexible data-driven code using Python's powerful  and dynamic introspection capabilities and advanced language features  such as meta-classes, duck typing and decorators.  | 
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|                                Python lets you write the code you need, quickly. And, thanks to a  highly optimized byte compiler and support libraries, Python code runs  more than fast enough for most applications.  | 
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