{"id":122,"date":"2019-10-24T10:54:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T09:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.derniercriweb.solutions\/bury-blog\/?p=122"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:29:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T11:29:50","slug":"some-say-this-is-where-its-at-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\/bury-blog\/2019\/10\/24\/some-say-this-is-where-its-at-python\/","title":{"rendered":"Some say this is where its at: python!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\"><strong>Python<\/strong>&nbsp;is an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interpreted_language\">interpreted<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High-level_programming_language\">high-level<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/General-purpose_programming_language\">general-purpose<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Programming_language\">programming language<\/a>. Created by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guido_van_Rossum\">Guido van Rossum<\/a>&nbsp;and first released in 1991, Python&#8217;s design philosophy emphasizes&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Code_readability\">code readability<\/a>&nbsp;through use of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Off-side_rule\">significant whitespace<\/a>. Its language constructs and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Object-oriented_programming\">object-oriented<\/a>&nbsp;approach aim to help programmers write clear, logical code for small and large-scale projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Python is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dynamic_programming_language\">dynamically typed<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Garbage_collection_(computer_science)\">garbage-collected<\/a>. It supports multiple&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Programming_paradigms\">programming paradigms<\/a>, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Procedural_programming\">procedural<\/a>, object-oriented, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Functional_programming\">functional programming<\/a>. Python is often described as a &#8220;batteries included&#8221; language due to its comprehensive&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Standard_library\">standard library<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Python was conceived in the late 1980s as a successor to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ABC_(programming_language)\">ABC language<\/a>. Python&nbsp;2.0, released in 2000, introduced features like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_comprehension\">list comprehensions<\/a>&nbsp;and a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Garbage_collection_(computer_science)\">garbage collection<\/a>&nbsp;system capable of collecting&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reference_cycle\">reference cycles<\/a>. Python&nbsp;3.0, released in 2008, was a major revision of the language that is not completely&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Backward_compatibility\">backward-compatible<\/a>, and much Python&nbsp;2 code does not run unmodified on Python&nbsp;3. Due to concern about the amount of code written for Python&nbsp;2, support for Python&nbsp;2.7 (the last release in the 2.x series) was extended to 2020. Language developer Guido van Rossum shouldered sole responsibility for the project until July 2018 but now shares his leadership as a member of a five-person steering council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Python&nbsp;2 language, i.e. Python 2.7.x, is &#8220;sunsetting&#8221; on January 1, 2020, and the Python team of volunteers will not fix security issues, or improve it in other ways after that date.&nbsp;With the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/End-of-life_(product)\">end-of-life<\/a>, only Python&nbsp;3.5.x and later will be supported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Python&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Interpreter_(computing)\">interpreters<\/a>&nbsp;are available for many&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Operating_system\">operating systems<\/a>. A global community of programmers develops and maintains&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CPython\">CPython<\/a>, an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open-source_software\">open source<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reference_implementation\">reference implementation<\/a>. A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nonprofit_organization\">non-profit organization<\/a>, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Python_Software_Foundation\">Python Software Foundation<\/a>, manages and directs resources for Python and CPython development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted has-white-background-color has-background\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.derniercriweb.co.uk<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/derniercri.biz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/derniercri.biz<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abportfolio.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.abportfolio.co.uk <\/a><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Python&nbsp;is an&nbsp;interpreted,&nbsp;high-level,&nbsp;general-purpose&nbsp;programming language. Created by&nbsp;Guido van Rossum&nbsp;and first released in 1991, Python&#8217;s design philosophy emphasizes&nbsp;code readability&nbsp;through use of&nbsp;significant whitespace. Its language constructs and&nbsp;object-oriented&nbsp;approach aim to help programmers write clear, logical code for small and large-scale projects. Python is&nbsp;dynamically typed&nbsp;and&nbsp;garbage-collected. It supports multiple&nbsp;programming paradigms, including&nbsp;procedural, object-oriented, and&nbsp;functional programming. 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