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A DETAILED REPORT ON PYTHON •	Python logo and wordmark Paradigm	Object-oriented, imperative, functional, procedural, reflective Designed by	Guido van Rossum Developer	Python Software Foundation First appeared	1990; 28 years ago[1] Stable release 3.7.1 / 20 October 2018; 7 days ago[2] 2.7.15 / 1 May 2018; 5 months ago[3] Typing discipline	Duck, dynamic, strong; and since version 3.5: Gradual[4] License	Python Software Foundation License Filename extensions	.py, .pyc, .pyd, .pyo (prior to 3.5),[5] .pyw, .pyz (since 3.5)[6] Website	www.python.org Major implementations CPython, IronPython, Jython, MicroPython, Numba, PyPy, Stackless Python Dialects Cython, RPython •	Python (programming language) 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.[27] In July 2018, Van Rossum stepped down as the leader in the language community after 30 years.[28][29]

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.[30]

Python interpreters are available for many operating systems. CPython, the reference implementation of Python, is open source software[31] and has a community-based development model, as do nearly all of Python's other implementations. Python and CPython are managed by the non-profit Python Software Foundation. •	History of python

Guido van Rossum OSCON 2006 cropped Main article: History of Python Python was conceived in the late 1980s[32] by Guido van Rossum at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands as a successor to the ABC language (itself inspired by SETL)[33], capable of exception handling and interfacing with the Amoeba operating system.[7] Its implementation began in December 1989.[34] Van Rossum's long influence on Python is reflected in the title given to him by the Python community: Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL) – a post from which he gave himself permanent vacation on July 12, 2018.[35]

Python 2.0 was released on 16 October 2000 with many major new features, including a cycle-detecting garbage collector and support for Unicode.[36]

Python 3.0 was released on 3 December 2008. It was a major revision of the language that is not completely backward-compatible.[37] Many of its major features were backported to Python 2.6.x[38] and 2.7.x version series. Releases of Python 3 include the 2to3 utility, which automates (at least partially) the translation of Python 2 code to Python 3.[39]

Python 2.7's end-of-life date was initially set at 2015 then postponed to 2020 out of concern that a large body of existing code could not easily be forward-ported to Python 3.[40][41] In January 2017, Google announced work on a Python 2.7 to Go transcompiler to improve performance under concurrent workloads. •	Languages influenced by Python Python's design and philosophy have influenced many other programming languages:

Boo uses indentation, a similar syntax, and a similar object model.[152] Cobra uses indentation and a similar syntax, and its "Acknowledgements" document lists Python first among languages that influenced it.[153] However, Cobra directly supports design-by-contract, unit tests, and optional static typing.[154] CoffeeScript, a programming language that cross-compiles to JavaScript, has Python-inspired syntax. ECMAScript borrowed iterators and generators from Python.[155] Go is designed for the "speed of working in a dynamic language like Python"[156] and shares the same syntax for slicing arrays. Groovy was motivated by the desire to bring the Python design philosophy to Java.[157] Julia was designed "with true macros [.. and to be] as usable for general programming as Python [and] should be as fast as C".[23] Calling to or from Julia is possible; to with PyCall.jl and a Python package pyjulia allows calling, in the other direction, from Python. Kotlin is a functional programming language with an interactive shell similar to Python. However, Kotlin is strongly typed with access to standard Java libraries.[158] Ruby's creator, Yukihiro Matsumoto, has said: "I wanted a scripting language that was more powerful than Perl, and more object-oriented than Python. That's why I decided to design my own language."[159] Swift, a programming language developed by Apple, has some Python-inspired syntax.[160] GDScript, dynamically typed programming language used to create video-games. It is extremely similar to Python with a few minor differences. Python's development practices have also been emulated by other languages. For example, the practice of requiring a document describing the rationale for, and issues surrounding, a change to the language (in Python, a PEP) is also used in Tcl[161] and Erlang.[162]

Python received TIOBE's Programming Language of the Year awards in 2007 and 2010. The award is given to the language with the greatest growth in popularity over the year, as measured by the TIOBE index External links •	Find more about •	Python (programming language) •	at Wikipedia's sister projects •	Media from Wikimedia Commons •	Quotations from Wikiquote •	Textbooks from Wikibooks •	Learning resources from Wikiversity •	Official website Edit this at Wikidata •	Python at Curlie (based on DMOZ) report created by... vinayak pillai