Python (DB-API)
Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability with the use of significant indentation. Python is dynamically type-checked and garbage-collected. It supports multiple programming paradigms, including structured (particularly…
Key facts
- First appeared
- 2008
- Category
- technology
- Problem solved
- Python was created to provide a general-purpose, high-level language that offered both simplicity and power. It aimed to bridge the gap between low-level system programming and high-level scripting, enabling rapid development for various domains while providing an elegant and readable syntax that was often lacking in contemporary scripting languages like Perl.
- Platforms
- web, macos, android, ios, Linux, Web (via WebAssembly with Pyodide/Brython), windows, Unix-like systems, linux, Windows, Embedded systems (via MicroPython), macOS, unix
Related technologies
Notable users
- Netflix
- Industrial Light & Magic
- Amazon
- Meta (Facebook)
- Spotify
- NASA
- Microsoft
- Dropbox