Python was created by Guido van Rossum in 1990. It was mainly desgined to give high focus on reability of code. Python 3 was released in 2008 and since then many more versions such as python 3.1 etc have been released.
Why should should we use python?
It is easy to read and understand and thus it is a language which is easy to learn even for a beginner.
Many languages use brackets which makes the code convoluted or hard to read, but python uses indentations which makes it easier to read.
Many libraries are already written using python which allows users to apply python in many places.
It optimises the user's time more than the computational time.
It is an OSI approached language making it freely usable.
Uses of python
Simple tasks
Searching for files and editing files.
Scrapping information from a website.
Reading and editing excel files.
Working with PDF's.
Automate emails and text messages.
Create websites
Create interactive dashboards for users.
Use of Django to handle the backend of a website and user data.
In the field of data science and machine learning
Analysing of large data files using numpy and pandas.