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10 very interesting facts about Python!

Manpreet Singh
2 min readJul 2, 2021

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Welcome back! Python is a very popular programming language out there, it’s used by tons of companies for tons of different projects, so let’s go ahead and hit on 10 very interesting facts about Python!

1. This programming language was actually named after the comedy troupe Monty Python, not the animal!

2. This language was conceived in the late 1980’s, essentially inspired by the SETL programming language

3. Big companies use Python for tons of different tasks (data science, web development, software development, and even game development)

4. Python uses an interpreter to run it’s code, not a compiler (unlike Java or C)

5. Python is older than other popular programming languages like Java, C#, Javascript, PHP and even R!

6. Python has several different variants, including: CPython, Jython, RubyPython, etc.

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Manpreet Singh
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