Python is a high-level, interpreted, interactive and object oriented scripting language.
Python was developed by Guido van Rossum in the late eighties and early nineties at the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands.
Python is named after the BBC show “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” and has nothing to do with reptiles.

Interpreted language - no extra compile/link step, great for fast development.
Simple to use, yet a real-world programming language used for large projects.
Object Oriented - scales well to bigger codebases.
Rich standard library - I/O, sockets, databases, GUI and more, out of the box.
Shorter, more readable programs compared to C, C++ or Java.