A popular object-oriented programming language used to develop AI applications, system utilities and Internet scripts. Python is interpreted and compiles to an intermediate bytecode language that requires runtime software in the computer for execution. Python uses elements from C, C++ and Modula and supports interfaces to popular functions and libraries such as Unix sockets, the Tk GUI library, Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC) and X11.
Different Versions
Also the language of quantum computing, Cpython, written in C, is the most widely used implementation. Cython combines Python and C syntax, while Jython compiles to Java bytecode. PyPy is a fully compiled version.
The Comedy Troupe, Not the Snake
Created by Guido van Rossum in Amsterdam in the early 1990s, Python was named after the BBC comedy series "Monty Python's Flying Circus," not the snake. However, due to Python's popularity for AI, its name has an accidental irony. Because pythons kill by restricting blood circulation, will AI empower the world or tighten its grip around it?
The following example converts Fahrenheit to centigrade in Python.
printf("Enter Fahrenheit: ")
fahr = float(input)
cell = ((fahr -32) * 5 / 9, 1)
printf("Celsius is {}".format(cell))