The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers.
Python was created in the early 1990s by Guido van Rossum at Stichting Mathematisch Centrum in the Netherlands as a successor of a language called ABC. Guido remains Python’s principal author, although it includes many contributions from others.
The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers.
The Python web site provides a Python Package Index (also known as the Cheese Shop, a reference to the Monty Python script of that name). There is also a search page for a number of sources of Python-related information.
Got a Python problem or question? First check the Python FAQs, with answers to many common, general Python questions. The Python Help category of the discuss.python.org website hosts usage questions and answers from the Python community. The tutor list offers interactive help.
Browse the docs online or download a copy of your own. Python's documentation, tutorials, and guides are constantly evolving. Get started here, or scroll down for documentation broken out by type and subject. Python Docs See also Documentation Releases by Version
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The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers.
The Python interpreter and the extensive standard library are freely available in source or binary form for all major platforms from the Python website, https://www.python.org/, and may be freely distributed.
