Introduction to Python Python is one of the mostly used programming language in the world. Python is a general-purpose interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, and high-level programming language. Guido van Rossum created this during 1985- 1990. Python is an open source programming language and its source code is available under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Some key features of python – Python is Interpreted: Python is processed at runtime by the interpreter. You do not need to compile your program before executing it. This is similar to PERL and PHP. Python is Interactive: You can sit at a Python prompt and interact with the interpreter directly to write your programs. Python is Object-Oriented: Python supports Object-Oriented style or technique of programming