Python is an open source, general purpose programming language, developed in 1980s by Guido van Rossum at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands as a successor to ABC programming language. It has been designed to emphasize on code readability with its significant use of whitespace. Python is an interpreted language, very popular and is mostly used in scientific field, specifically in Data Mining and Machine Learning programs.

       Writing programs in Python is less time consuming compared to any other languages. The top 8 companies that encourage and widely use Python are Google, Facebook, Instagram, Spotify, Quora, Netflix, Dropbox and Reddit.