Python is the "most powerful language you can still read".
– Pau Dubois

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High-level programming language

Python is an interpreted high-level programming language for general-purpose programming. Created by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991, Python has a design philosophy that emphasizes code readability, notably using significant whitespace.

Guido van Rossum

Guido van Rossum


- Guido van Rossum

Python 2.x or Python 3.x

Short version: Python 2.x is legacy, Python 3.x is the present and future of the language. Python 3.0 was released in 2008. The final 2.x version 2.7 release came out in mid-2010, with a statement of extended support for this end-of-life release. The 2.x branch will see no new major releases after that. 3.x is under active development and has already seen over five years of stable releases, including version 3.3 in 2012, 3.4 in 2014, 3.5 in 2015, and 3.6 in 2016. This means that all recent standard library improvements, for example, are only available by default in Python 3.x.