The Python programming language is one of the fastest-growing languages today in the emerging field of data science and analytics. Python was created by Guido van Rossum in 1991, and its key features include the following:
- Interpreted rather than compiled
- Dynamic type system
- Pass by value with object references
- Modular capability
- Comprehensive libraries
- Extensibility with respect to other languages
- Object orientation
- Most of the major programming paradigms: procedural, object-oriented, and, to a lesser extent, functional
For more information, refer to the following article on Python at https://www.python.org/about/.
Among the characteristics that make Python popular for data science are its very user-friendly (human-readable) syntax, the fact that it is interpreted rather than compiled (leading to faster development...
