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Python is an object oriented ,interpreted and a high level programming language . It was founded by Guido van Rossum in 1991 and Python was developed by Python Software Foundation. Python is a simple language and its syntax is easy to use.Python reduces the program maintenance cost..It is an interpreted language.Python consists of hundreds of libraries that can be freely distributed.Python uses the concept of modules and packages which focuses on program modularity and code reuse. Python is a programming language that lets you work quickly and integrate systems more efficiently.

Python is a general purpose programming language. Therefore , Python programming language can be used for developing both desktop and web applications. Python can also be used for developing complex scientific and numeric applications. Pythonis designed with features to facilitate data analysis and visualization.

Python can be used in Webdevelopment,SoftwareDevelopment,Mathematics and System Scripting.

Python’s syntax is very simple.It is similar to English language,so users can easily understand the syntax and the semantics of the language.

Python’s code can be reused,thereby allowing the programmers to write programs with fewer lines.Python works well on multiple operating systems.

Many of the top IT companies are now using Python.Companies like

1. Instagram :Python is being used as the backend .Instagram being one of the top most photo sharing app uses Python as its backend.Instagram uses the Django framework,which is one of the worldd’s largest deployment platform.

2. Google : It is one of the world’s largest search engine.It uses Python programming language.

3. NetFlix: Netflix is one of the world’s leading television networks with people across the world watching number of TV shows.Netflix also uses Python programming language.

4. Uber: Uber is one of the most popular used by many to travel from one place to another.The app was programmed using two languages one is Python and the other is Node.js

5. Drop Box: Drop Box is used to store photos,videos,files and what not! It has a million of users.Python programming language is used in Drop Box to do most of their operations.

6. Pinterest:Pinterest is used by people who like to store ,share photos of any events.It uses Django at the application layer.

In which areas of Computer Science can Python be used?

Python can be used in many areas of computer science and Mathematics. Here's a sample of how Python can be used in different areas-Python consists of thousands of third party modules.

Python is used in web development and also can also be called as an Internet programming language.

Python contains many applications for web development out of which few of them include- One of the famous Django and Pyramid framework Flask and Bottle which are called as Micro frameworks Plone and Django Content Management Systems which can also be called as Advanced Content Management Systems.

Python contains a standard library which supports many Internet protocols few of them are –

JSON

HTML and XML

E-mail protocol

Python supports FTP, IMAP, and other Internet protocols.

It also has an Easy to use pocket Interface

The PythonPackage Index has some more libraries:

Python has a library called “Requests” ,which is a powerful HTTP client library.

Python also contains a library called “BeautifulSoup”, which is an HTML parser that could handle different types of oddball HTML.

Yet another library called the Feedparser for parsing the RSS/Atom feeds.

A famous library called the “Paramiko”, implementing the SSH2 protocol.

It contains Twisted Python, which is a framework for asynchronous network programming.

Python is also used in scientific and numeric computing out of which few of them are listed below:

SciPylibrary a scientific python library is a collection of packages for mathematics, science, and engineering.

Pandas is a famous library used in data analysis and modeling IPythonlibrary is yet another powerful interactive shell that has features for easy editing and for recording a work session, and it also supports features like visualizations and parallel computing.

The Software Carpentry Course in Python teaches people the basic skills for scientific computing, running bootcamps and it also provides open-access teaching materials.

Python is one of the best languages for teaching programming to students who are beginners as an introductory course or to students who would like to learn advanced level programming.Python is taught mostly to students who are into Analytics.

There are few famous books that can be used as a teaching material or a study material such as “How to think like a computer scientist,PythonProgramming”: An Introduction to Computer science and Practical Programming.

There is an “Education Special Interest Group” which is a good place to discuss teaching issues.

There is a GUI Tk librarywhich is included with most of the binary distributions of Python.

There are some toolkits that are used on several platforms and they are available separately:

A tool kit called wxWidgets

Kivy, toolkit is used for writing multitouch applications.

Qttool kit via pyqt or pyside

There are certain Platform-specific toolkits which are also available:

The Microsoft Foundation Classes can be done through the win32 extensions. Python in Software Development

Python is used mostly as a support language for software developers, for building and fpr management and for testing, and umpty number of ways.The uses of Python in Software Development is innumerable

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SCons in Python can be used for build control.

The Buildbot and Apache Gump are used for automated compilation and continuous testing of the software.

Roundup or Trac is used for tracking the bugs and project management

Python can also be used in Business applications to build ERP and e-commerce systems:

Odoo Software is one of the management software that offers a wide range of business applications that forms a complete software that can be widely used in Business as ERP’s

TrytonSoftware is supposed to be a three-tier high-level general purpose application platform.