Why is python so popular? What can you do with python?

Python? What is python used for? Why is python so popular? What can you do with python? There are many more questions that move around the head of various people so, I’m going to answer these three most asked questions about python. 

Python is the world’s fastest-growing programming language. It is not only popular among software engineer but also among data analyst, mathematicians, accountants, scientists, network engineers and even kids.

The reason is that python is a beginner’s friendly language and is comparatively easy to understand than other programming languages.

People from different discipline use it for data visualization and analysis, machine learning, artificial intelligence and automation. python is mostly used to automate daily boring tasks among those who are not software developers. If there are the monotonous task of copying files, uploading or downloading files or data on a server or website you can write a python script easily to automate these and save you time. 

Let’s take an example from daily life if you have to deal every day with excel spreadsheets adding, editing, deleting records you can easily write a script for that so, you don’t need to be a developer to use it. You could be a member of any discipline and can use python.

You can also use python to develop web, mobile and desktop applications. Moreover, you can also use it for software testing and hacking; serving as a multipurpose language.

Now. If you belong from a programming background, you must be thinking that we can do all this stuff with other programming languages so, why python?

The reason is the ease provided by python. Using it we can solve complex problems within less time and with fewer lines of code. Let’s take an example if we want to extract a first five letters from a text "Programming" this is how code looks like in 

C#:  str.Substring(0,5)

Javascript:   str.substr(0,5)

Python: str[0:5]

see how easily it solves the problems. This is the just one basic example and there are a lot many trivial things that python has made easy with simple and clean code syntax. we will surely discover in upcoming articles.

There are a few more reasons why Python is so popular. It’s a high-level language, easily understandable and free of the worries of the complex task of memory management like we do in c++.

Python is a cross-platform which means you can build and run applications on multiple operating systems like Windows, Linux and Mac.

It has a huge community so, whenever you are stuck, there is somebody out there to help you.

It has a large ecosystem of libraries, frameworks and tools mean whatever you wanna do it is likely that someone else has done it before you. Because python is here around for 22 years.

So, python is a multi-purpose programming language with a simple and beginner-friendly syntax. In short, Python is awesome!

Technically, everything that we can do in python can be done in other programming languages but, the ease provided by python has made it grow. And it’s the number one programming language employers are looking for. So, whether you are a programmer or a beginner, learning python is a good option that will open a lot of opportunities. The average salary of a Python developer is $122,093 yearly according to devskiller.

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