Python is a powerful general-purpose programming language.
It is a procedural, object oriented, high level programming language.
It is very simple and uses English like words to write program.
It has a vast library of modules to support integration of complex solution from pre-built components.
Python Programming language has lots of advantages:-
Functional Programming language feature come from C Programming
Object oriented Programming Language feature come from C++ because Java was not on that time.
Scripting Language feature come from Perl shell scripting.
Or it is also Modular Programming come from modula-3
What can python do ?
We can develop various types applications with python.
Desktop applications like calculator etc.
Web applications using --> django framework.
Network applications client server applications
Game applications
Data analysis
Machine learning, Data Science, Neural Network, Artificial Intelligence, IOT etc.
So we can say that python is a general purpose programming applications.
Which Company uses Python ?
Google , yahoo , facebook , Netflix , Dropbox , NASA , etc …
use Python to develop application.
Note:-
Father of python programming language Guido van Rossum, and it was released in 1991.