History of Python

Python is a widely-used popular programing language and it was initially introduced in 1991 by Guido Van Rossum and developed by Python Software Foundation. The implementation of Python was started in the 1998s by Guido Van Rossum at CWI Netherlands.

Guido Van Rossum started working on Python in the late 1998s after the successor of the ABC programming language and first released in 1991 0.9.0.

Python 2.0 was released in 2000 along with some features like list comprehensionsgarbage collectioncycle-detectingUnicode, etc.

Python 3.0 released in 2008 along with some extra features, was a major revision that was not completely backward compatible with earlier versions. Python 2 was discontinued version 2.7.18 in 2020.


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