Python History

Python was implementation began in December 1989 by Guido van Rossum at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands as a successor to the ABC language capable of exception handling and interfacing with the operating system Amoeba.Van Rossum is Python's principal author, and his continuing central role in deciding the direction of Python is reflected in the title given to him by the Python community.

Guido van Rossum is a Dutch programmer who is best known as the author of the Python programming language.

Python is a great alternative for programmers because it is an open source program developed under an OSI license. There is absolutely no charge to download, install, or run the program on any computer. The software is available in many different builds and supports 21 different operating systems and operating environment which gives it its universal appeal and cross system functionality.