It is a High Level Interpreted Language (HLL) conceived by Guido Van Rossum in late 1980s.
• It has a simple and clean syntax
• It is a multi-paradigm language, in a way it lets user adopt object-oriented and/or structured programming paradigms
• Its key goal is to enhance developer productivity through: modularity, uniformity, simplicity
• Ease of extensibility:
Python language itself has a small core but much of the functionality is provided through loadable modules. These modules together form a large python standard library. New modules can easily be written in Python and/or C / C++.
• It has thousands of third-party extensions and tools
• Some of its known implementations are: CPython, Jython, IronPython, and pypy.