An increasingly popular and actively developing general-purpose programming language. It has a relatively small number of simple commands, which undoubtedly makes its syntax one of the simplest among modern languages. Easy to learn and a large number of programming styles (among which structural, functional, object-oriented, imperative and aspect-oriented) are undoubted advantages of the so-called Python. Code written in Python by one programmer can easily be read by others, which makes it easier to work with the code.

Other advantages of Python:

• The ability to check for errors in individual sections of the program, not just the entire program;
• Portability to almost all modern platforms;
• large standard library;
• interoperability with languages such as C++ and C.

Disadvantages of this language:

• relatively low speed of algorithm execution, typical of many interpreted programming languages;
• large number of errors in the system code;
• problems with data types when passing files in large projects, due to the use of dynamic typing.

Python has become one of the leaders in the segment of web applications development, while it is constantly finding new fans and strengthens its position among programmers. The language has a lot of implementations customized to solve various problems on any platform. Among them: PyPy, IronPython, Stackless, Jython, Unladen Swallow, Micro Python and others. In modern times, programmers face a whole range of programming languages with many different properties. Their development has not stopped; on the contrary, it is only accelerating, and towards an increase in the number of varieties of languages.

So the choice of the main specialization is getting more and more difficult, but the knowledge of the basic and most common languages, which were discussed in this article, is a must for every self-respecting specialist.