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10 Interesting Facts About Python You Didn’t Know

This Language Has Many Secrets For Us

It’s probable that you love Python, and it’s normal. The snake provided us with a very powerful programming language. I’ve created a lot of projects using this language and I enjoy it a lot when I have to use it.

Its popularity has grown in recent years among people of all ages and industries. Today it’s a programming language used by top-tech companies due to its simplicity and efficiency in specified use cases.

If you try to master it you’re going to find a lot of amazing aspects of this language. However, you couldn’t say that you know Python if you don’t know some interesting facts that you could share in your next meeting.

1. Python was a hobby

It’s believed that Python was developed during the Christmas holidays as a hobby in December 1989. Guido Van Rossum (his creator) was looking for a project to keep him occupied during his free time on Christmas.

The most popular language right now was born as a hobby. Isn’t incredible?!

2. Pythons is pure poetry

Import this and read this wonderful poem

3. It’s open source

Do you love the snake? Then you can contribute to it through GitHub. Python is developed under an OSI-approved open-source license. This makes it freely usable and distributable, even for commercial use

4. Nowadays, it’s the most popular language

5. Python has some relatives

Python has become as popular as it has a lot of relatives around the Internet. You can use CPython, a variation of Python that offers the benefits of C. Or you can search for RubyPython, a bridge between both programming languages.

6. You can return many things

7. You don’t need to waste a pair of lines to assign

Assigning three variables in one line using Python

8. Space is for concatenating

9. Python loves antigravity!

If you import antigravity you’re going to get the following output.

10. It’s older than you can imagine

In reality, the first version of Python was released in 1991, and as we said in the first fact, its development started in 1989. So, this language has more than 30 years old. The snake’s older than Java and JavaScript for example.

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About author🤓

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My two passions are technology and communication, so I take every opportunity to talk or write about technology. I love to transform complex concepts into simple ones that everyone can understand.

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