What Is Python? Python is a programming language used to communicate with computers. A programming language is a way of giving instructions to a computer in a format that both humans and machines can understand. What makes Python stand out from other programming languages is how readable and clean it looks. For instance, if you wanted to print the words "Hello, World!" on screen, in some older languages you would need five or six lines of code just to do that. In Python, you write one line as below; print("Hello, World!") Python was created by a Dutch programmer named Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991. Van Rossum wanted to build a language that was fun and easy to use, and he named it after the British comedy group Monty Python. Over the decades, Python has grown from a niche scripting tool into one of the most widely used programming languages in the world.…