The word «python» refers to a family of large nonvenomous snakes, as well as a computer programming language.
Python, the programming language, is a general purpose high-level interpreted language that's relatively easy to learn, friendly to beginners, while also staying a powerful language popular among professionals.
Python was created by a Dutch programmer Guido van Rossum, circa 1989, as a successor to the language ABC, and is named after Monty Python, a famous British comedy group.
An example of a Python program is:
N = 3
p = [chr(ord('a') + i) for i in range(N)]
def printPermutations(n):
if n < N - 1:
for i in range(n,N):
p[n], p[i] = p[i], p[n] # swap
printPermutations(n + 1)
p[n], p[i] = p[i], p[n] # swap back
else:
print("".join(p))
printPermutations(0)
While Hello World! in Python would look something like
this:
print("Hello, World!")
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