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Python Basics
4.1 Introduction
Python is a high-level programming language used for general-purpose programming, developed by Guido Van Rossum in 1991. Python is specially designed to be highly readable as it uses frequent English keywords. Python is frequently used to create software and web applications on a server. Some of the important features of Python are described as follows:
It supports concepts of object-oriented programming.
It can be easily integrated with some other programming languages including C, C++, Java, Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), etc.
Python is scalable as it better supports large programs than shell scripting.
Python relies highly on indentation, here whitespace is used to define scope. Due ...
