History of Python

Dec1989 - As a successor of ABC to provide exception handling
Feb1991 - First public release 0.9.0 had classes with inheritance, exception handling, functions and core data types
Jan1994 - Version 1.0 with functional programming
Oct2000 - Version 2.0 brings garbage collectors, Version 2.2 improves types to be fully object oriented
Dec2008 - Version 3.0 reduce feature duplication by removing old ways of doing things
Jun2018 - Version 3.7 Stable release
Oct2019 - Version 3.8
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Why Python ?

Easy to learn
Has efficient high level data structures
Elegent Syntax and Dynamic typing
Many third party libraries/modules
Active community support

Application

Web and Internet Development
Scientific and Numeric computation
Software automation and testing