Basics of Python Python is a popular programming language. It was created by Guido van Rossum in 1989, and released in 1991. It is used for: web development (server-side), software development, mathematics, system scripting. Python is named after the comedy television show Monty Python’s Flying Circus. It is not named after the Python snake. Python is available and can run on various operating systems such as Mac, Windows, Linux, Unix etc. This makes it a cross platform and portable language. Python is free to download and use. Python supports automatic memory management Python is a open source programming language. You can download python for free from the following website: https://www.python.org/ Python can be run as a command line itself i.e. typing python from command prompt. Python is an interpreted programming language, this means that you can write...