text: Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. Its design
philosophy emphasizes code readability with the use of significant
indentation. Python is dynamically typed and garbage-collected. It supports
multiple programming paradigms, including structured (particularly
procedural), object-oriented and functional programming. It is often described
as a "batteries included" language due to its comprehensive standard library.
Guido van Rossum began working on Python in the late 1980s as a successor to
the ABC programming language and first released it in 1991 as Python 0.9.0.
Python 2.0 was released in 2000. Python 3.0, released in 2008, was a major
revision not completely backward-compatible with earlier versions. Python
2.7.18, released in 2020, was the last release of Python 2. Python
consistently ranks as one of the most popular programming languages, and has
gained widespread use in the machine learning community.