Encountering The Python What is Python? As per Wikipedia “Python is a widely used high-level , general-purpose , interpreted , dynamic programming language .” Python is an open source programming language which was conceived in the late 1980s and its implementation began in December 1989 by Guido van Rossum (more on it here ). What kind of programing language? To give a better idea let's look at the below mentioned summary- High level language - Python is a high-level language because it provides strong “abstraction”. Interpreted - Python is an Interpreted language because it does not run on a compiler. Dynamically typed language - Python is dynamically typed because in python every variable is bound to an object. Why should I learn Python? Python is a very powerful programming language, secondly it's easier to learn and since it's interpreted language the code is easier to understand. Lastly there is a huge community supporting Python so if y