Python was created by Guido Van Rossum when he was working at CWI (Centrum
Wiskunde & Informatica) which is a National Research Institute for Mathematics and
Computer Science in Netherlands. The language was released in I991. Python got its
name from a BBC comedy series from seventies- “Monty Python‟s Flying Circus”.
Python can be used to follow both Procedural approach and Object Oriented approach
of programming. It is free to use.
