Python is named after the British comedy group Monty Python. Guido van Rossum (Creator of Python) was reading Monty Python's Flying Circus scripts while creating the language.
Python is a high-level, interpreted, object-oriented, open source and general purpose programming language. Python is a good choice for beginners because it is easy to learn and has an easy-to-read syntax. Python software is free to download.
Python is also versatile and can run on many different platforms. It can run on Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD, Android, iOS, Raspberry Pi OS etc.
Python is a programming language that is most widely used in software development, web applications, data analysis, automation,data science, scientific computing and machine learning (ML) etc. Developers use Python because easy to learn and highly efficient and can run on many different platforms.