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He attributes choosing the name "Python" to "being in a slightly irreverent mood (and a big fan of Monty Python's Flying Circus)". [31] He has explained that Python's predecessor, ABC, was inspired by SETL, noting that ABC co-developer Lambert Meertens had "spent a year with the SETL group at NYU before coming up with the final ABC design". [32]
Python 2.6 was released to coincide with Python 3.0, and included some features from that release, as well as a "warnings" mode that highlighted the use of features that were removed in Python 3.0. [ 28 ] [ 10 ] Similarly, Python 2.7 coincided with and included features from Python 3.1, [ 29 ] which was released on June 26, 2009.
Python 3.0, released in 2008, was a major revision not completely backward-compatible with earlier versions. Python 2.7.18, released in 2020, was the last release of Python 2. [37] Python consistently ranks as one of the most popular programming languages, and has gained widespread use in the machine learning community. [38] [39] [40] [41]
Year Name Chief developer, company Predecessor(s) 1804 Jacquard machine: Joseph Marie Jacquard: none (unique language) 1879 Begriffsschrift: Gottlob Frege: none (unique language) 1943–45 Plankalkül (year of conceptualization) Konrad Zuse: none (unique language) 1943–46 ENIAC coding system
Pérez began working on IPython as a side project in 2001, and is a co-founder of Project Jupyter, which evolved from IPython in 2014. [ 1 ] [ 8 ] [ 18 ] He received a 2023 NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal for his leadership of Project Jupyter.
The Python Conference (also called PyCon [1]: 564 ) is the largest [2] [3] annual convention for the discussion and promotion of the Python programming language. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It originated in the United States but is also held in more than 40 other countries.
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is an American nonprofit organization devoted to the Python programming language, [3] launched on March 6, 2001. The mission of the foundation is to foster development of the Python community and is responsible for various processes within the Python community, including developing the core Python distribution, managing intellectual rights, developer ...
[1] [2] He's also the creator of Apache Arrow, a cross-language development platform for in-memory data, and Ibis, a unified Python dataframe API. He was the CEO and founder of technology startup Datapad. He was a software engineer at Two Sigma Investments. He founded Ursa Labs, [3] which, in 2021, became part of Voltron Data. [4]