DO YOU SPEAK PYTHON?

It's not a joke, the truth is that, believe it or not, this 2022 Python is again the most popular language of the year across multiple platforms according to Spectrum, even surpassing foreign languages such as French in schools around the world. Yes, that's right, you are about to know the most striking curiosities with which we fell in love with this language, which is conquering the hearts of new programmers around the world; At the end of this article, I will leave you with what I considered to be the most loved libraries by geeks.

On the other hand, there is a great motivation since it is not only fun to use this language and apply it, another reason that makes this language so attractive is that it is one of the best paid in the programming industry, you heard me right, this aside of allowing you to develop your skills as a high-level developer, it will allow you to increase your income substantially, since it is among the 10 languages better paid in recent years, and as if that were not enough, it is an open-source language, that is, it is free. Let's meet him!!!

The attraction of Python

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  • Easy to write: That's right, it is considered one of the languages that have a high-level syntax, very familiar to human language, its concepts in English will be easy for you to learn.

    • Tidy: Python's syntax is designed to force you to write with indentation depending on whether your code is executed inside a function, loop, or class. This is not only an advantage for the programmers who read your code but also forces you to develop good syntax practices when making your code.
    • No semicolon (;) In addition to its clean syntax, you will notice that some commands like; and braces {} that you used in JS to implement your functions. Making your life easier when writing your codes and looking for the key that has not been locked.

    print("Hello World")

  • Of the best-paid languages for developers: Programmers who work in Web development handling this type of language have salaries that range between.

  • Versatile because it allows development in various areas such as Data analysis, Web development, Scripting, and Back end.

  • It is Open Source, that is, it is free and you will not need a license for its installation, you can install it on Windows Mac, and Linux and even contribute to the development of this language.

How did It emerge?

The language has been so popular and successful that large companies in the technology industry such as Instagram, Pinterest, DropBox, Facebook, Spotify, Google, Youtube, and even NASA itself have used Python in their code development. But who and how developed this marvel? Well, believe it or not, the development of this language was carried out at Christmas, as a hobby of the Dutch computer scientist Guido van Rossum, in December 1989:

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Van Rossum, 1996
“Six years ago, in December 1989, I was looking for a hobby programming project to keep me busy over the Christmas weeks. My office would be closed and I would have nothing but my home computer to hand. I decided to write an interpreter for the new scripting language I had recently been devising: a descendant of ABC that Unix/c hackers would like. I chose the Python name for the project, finding myself in a slightly irreverent (and being a huge fan of Monty Python's Flying Circus)"
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Van Rossum, 2000
"Python's predecessor, ABC, was inspired by SETL - Lambert Meertens spent a year working in the SETL group at New York University before the final design for ABC emerged."

What can I do with Python? The most populars liners.

I know that this article is too short to explain all the amazing libraries that Python has, but I will let you know the ones that I considered to be the most popular:

  • Paygame: It is a library for the development of 2D video games, Pay game provides an API in Python that allows interaction with the SDL multimedia library.

  • Request: It is a Python library that greatly facilitates the work with HTTP requests, you will need it to query an API, or a WEB page or automate queries or send information to a form.

  • Pillow: This library allows you to open, save and manipulate many different image file formats, convert formats, resize, and rotate.

  • SQLAlchemy: It is a library of SQL and ORM tools that allow Python classes to be associated with tables in relational databases, allowing the manipulation of information found in databases.

  • Peewee: Peewee is an ORM that allows you to work with databases without making manual queries and helps to reduce a lot of time through the models.

  • RE: It is a library that allows you to work with regular expressions, facilitating searches within text strings.

  • COLLECTIONS: Librería potente de Python para trabajar de forma concisa y eficiente con datos, te permite reemplazar los contenedores de propósito general de Python como 'dict', 'touple'. 'set', 'list' entre otras funciones.

  • SELLENIUM: Tool designed to run automated tests on web applications.

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Article write by Alejandro Delgado to GEEKFORCE Team
Bogotá, Colombia