Introduction to Python

Python is a powerful open source programming language comes with a great standard library. Its expressive and more productive which helps in creating solutions quickly. Program is easily understandable by others, often you do not need to write much code. Python is popular due to powerful third party libraries for Data Science, Web Development, Cloud Configuration, Scientific Computing, Machine Learning. Pythons powerful features are used in back ends of high traffic websites including YouTube, Reddit, Instagram, Dropbox. Python technology is at the center of revolution in financial and analytical industry for Data Analysis and visualization. Few python libraries and applications are listed below

• Pythons Web Framework : Django, Flask, Pyramid
• Fast numerical Computing : NumPy
• Scientific Analysis : SciPy
• Configuration tool : Ansible
• Machine Learning : Pandas, Matplotlib, Bokeh, TensorFlow, scikit-learn

Python has a extensive help documentation on all the libraries and packages. Python can be downloaded and installed from https://www.python.org/downloads/