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Python Start • Feb 23, 2017
Getting Started with Python
Learning Python for APIs, analysis, automation, and deep learning
Python is growing in popularity and is currently listed among the top 5 programming languages in the TIOBE Index. Why is Python so popular? Below are 5 reasons:
- Libraries - many popular and supported libraries (e.g., asyncio, matplotlib, numpy)
- Easy to learn - Guido van Rossum created Python based on his experience with its precursor, ABC
- Highly portable - Python is interpreted, so there's no need to compile binaries for every platform
- Popularity for analytics - Python is seeing growing use for scholarly analytics
- Readily available - you can download the latest version of Python for free
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Python is becoming a popular programming language, and here are 7 examples to prove it