 Python (programming language)

Python is a general-purpose programming language with dynamic typing, functions, software classes, exception handling and modules. It supports procedural, object-oriented programming and functional programming. Guido van Rossum developed it to combine readable high-level data types with extensibility and access to operating system facilities; he began the implementation in 1989 and released it publicly in 1991.^[ref]

The standard-library ast module exposes Python abstract syntax trees. For example, parsing 2 + 3 * 4 in expression mode produces an addition whose right operand is a multiplication: the tree records operator precedence, and ordinary integer arithmetic evaluates the expression to 14. The abstract syntax tree can be inspected or transformed before compilation. The tree examples here use the Python 3.14 schema, since the schema can change between language versions.^[ref]

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Ciro Santilli's wife was studying a bit of basic Python for some job interviews, when she noticed:Damn right, girl, damn right.

Ciro remembers hearing about Python online briefly. It seemed like a distant thing from the Java/C dominated (and outdated) university courses. Then some teaching assistant mentioned during some course when Ciro was at École Polytechnique that Python was a great integration tool. That sounded cool.

Then finally, when the École Polytechnique mathematics department didn't let Ciro Santilli do his internship of choice due to grades and Ciro was at an useless last moment backup internship, he learned more Python instead of doing his internship job, and was hooked.