Later a much powerful and sophisticated Python 2.0 was released which was a complete overhaul from its predecessors and added new features like garbage collection system, list comprehensions, and the best part, it supported Unicode.

In 1994, Python 1.0 was released with new features that included map, lambda, filter and reduce, which aligned it heavily in relation to functional programming. Python was originally developed in the late 1980s by Guido Van Rossum but its implementation was started in 1989 and the first official version Python 0.9.0 was released in 1991. On the top, thousands of third-party libraries are also available, providing more powerful and sophisticated features than the standard library. One of its great strengths in that it comes with a very standard library – this allows us to do lots of things with just one or a few lines of code. It is probably the easiest-to-learn programming language is widespread use and a very expressive language, which means that you can usually write fewer lines of Python code than would be required for an equivalent application written in, let’s say, C++ or Java.

It is still one of the largest and well-organized open-source projects going and it runs everywhere, from cell phones to supercomputers and supported by professional-quality installers for Windows, Linux and macOS. Python is arguably one of the best first programming languages widely used for developing web apps.

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