Python is a mature, general-purpose, object-oriented, dynamically-typed programming language.

• released in 1991, four years before Java
• dominant in machine learning, statistics, and data analytics
• popular alternative to MATLAB or Octave
• gaining in popularity year after year

• general-purpose, both having a large standard library
• object-oriented
• garbage-collected

• dynamically-typed, and not strongly-typed
  ("type checks will only happen at runtime")
• interpreted with CPython, and not just-in-time compiled with a JVM
  ("more flexibility, but slower execution times")
• interactive mode provided out of the box
  ("i will show you that soon")