What is Python used for?

What does Python offer?

• Code readability and simplicity
• Supports open source software frameworks
• Robust standard library
• Supports diverse programming paradigms.

What use are these features in the programming world today?

GUI and Web App Development

The simplicity of the language, combined with the support of multiple frameworks and libraries makes it ideal for internet and web app development. This also facilitates Pythons role in the design of Desktop GUI applications.

Scientific and Numeric Applications

The diversity of libraries that it offers including NumPy, Pandas, and SciPy, to name a few, provide the basic framework for creating Scientific and Numeric applications.

Prototyping

The language supports the creation of prototypes for Software applications and allows these very prototypes to be easily converted into the applications by refactoring code.

Regular Expressions

Python also allows the use of regular expressions. Regular expressions, also called regex, are a special set of characters used to find or match, through a particular pattern, a string or a set of strings. It allows for text manipulation and is useful in many applications.

Overall Python, with all its features, can be used to develop large and complex, even customized applications with ease.