April 2018
Beginner
284 pages
7h 3m
English
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What is Python?
Python is an object-oriented interpreted language that is designed to be easy to use and to aid Rapid Application Development. This is achieved by the use of simplified semantics in the language.
Python was created at the end of the 1980s, towards the very end of December 1989, by the Dutch developer Guido van Rossum. The majority of the design of the language aims for clarity and simplicity, and one of the main rules of the Zen of Python is:
There should be one, and preferable only one, obvious way to do it.
Often systems will have both Python 2 and Python 3 installed; however, all newer distributions are switching to Python 3. We will be working with Python 3.
Since we are using Linux Mint, it comes shipped with Python 3 ...