Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. His design philosophy uses clear indentation to emphasize code readability .
Guido van Rossum started working on Python in the late 1980s as a successor to his ABC programming language, and in 1991 he first released it as Python 0.9.0. Python 2.0 was released in his 2000, introducing new features such as list comprehensions, garbage collection with cycle detection, reference counting, and Unicode support. Python 3.0, released in 2008, is a major he revision and is not fully backward compatible with previous versions. Python 2 was deprecated in 2020 with version 2.7.18.
Python is consistently one of the most popular programming languages.