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History of Python,Programing Language
Discover the history of Python
Python, one of the most popular and versatile programming languages today, was conceived in the late 1980s by Guido van Rossum at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands. Its implementation began in December 1989. Python 2.0, released in 2000, introduced features like list comprehensions and a garbage collection system capable of collecting reference cycles. Python 3.0, released in 2008, was a major revision of the language that is not completely backward-compatible, and much Python 2 code does not run unmodified on Python 3.
The Python 2.x series saw a significant expansion of Python’s capabilities and its user base. Libraries and frameworks such as Django (a high-level web framework), NumPy (fundamental package for scientific computing), and others dramatically increased Python’s footprint. Python 2.7, released in 2010, was intended to be the last of the 2.x releases; it was officially retired in 2020.
Python 3.x, designed to rectify fundamental design flaws in the language, initially divided the Python community because it introduced many backwards-incompatible changes. The most notable change was the print statement becoming a built-in function, reflecting the language’s shift towards consistency and clarity. Over time, as the advantages of Python 3 were…
