Question

what for python is used

Answer 1

programming!

Answer 2

@Chris2332 captain obvious?!xD

Answer 3

what srmbabu probably means is : for what kind of programmming (branch) is python being used....i mean could you use python on the same problem where you would use c or java or others....and why using one over the other

Answer 4

Hahaha... well the question is quite general.

Python is a high-level general-purpose programming language that can be applied to many different classes of problems.

The language comes with a large standard library that covers areas such as string processing (regular expressions, Unicode, calculating differences between files), Internet protocols (HTTP, FTP, SMTP, XML-RPC, POP, IMAP, CGI programming), software engineering (unit testing, logging, profiling, parsing Python code), and operating system interfaces (system calls, filesystems, TCP/IP sockets). Look at the table of contents for The Python Standard Library to get an idea of what’s available. A wide variety of third-party extensions are also available. Consult the Python Package Index to find packages of interest to you.