Python is a high-level programming language created by Guido van Rossum in the late 1980s and officially released in 1991. He developed it as a successor to the ABC language, aiming to create a language that was both easy to read and powerful.
The name “Python” was inspired not by the snake, but by the British comedy group Monty Python—reflecting van Rossum’s goal to make coding fun.
Over the years, Python has evolved through major versions:
Python 2.0 (2000): Introduced features like list comprehensions and garbage collection.
Python 3.0 (2008): A major redesign to fix inconsistencies, not fully backward-compatible.
Today, Python is one of the world’s most popular languages, widely used in web development, data science, AI/ML, and automation.