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In this tutorial, you will learn about the Python programming language, its features, and its benefits. This tutorial is part of Python's top 25 most commonly asked interview questions.

What is Python?

• Python is a high-level, object-oriented, interpreted and general-purpose programming language.
• Python has a simple syntax as compared to other languages and is easy to learn.
• It is widely used in many domains including data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Key Benefits and Features

• Free and open-source: It is Free and open source.
• Cross-platform: can run on any platform such as Windows, Linux, UNIX, and Macintosh.
• Easy to use: It is easy to learn and requires less code to develop the applications.
• Object-oriented: It supports all Object-Oriented concepts.
• Dynamically typed: you don’t need to state the types of variables when you declare them. It automatically gets assigned during execution.
  • Example

x=10 and then x="The Programming Portal" without any error.

• Built-in data structure: Rich set of data types like Tuple, List, Sets, and Dictionary etc.
• Interpreted language: it executes the code line by line and stops if an error occurs in any line.
• Extensive support for libraries: Python has vast libraries and is used in various software domains.

Applications

Python programming is used in various ranges of the application. A few are listed below:

• Web and Internet Development: web frameworks like Django, Pyramid, Flask.
• Scientific and computational applications.
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
• Image processing and graphic design applications.
• Enterprise and business applications development.
• Automations.
• Games.
• GUI and many more.

To know about it, please refer to the official documentation website - python.org.